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High precision Monte Carlo simulations of interfaces in the three-dimensional Ising model: a comparison with the Nambu-Goto effective string model

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-02-07 v1 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Motivated by the recent progress in the effective string description of the interquark potential in lattice gauge theory, we study interfaces with periodic boundary conditions in the three-dimensional Ising model. Our Monte Carlo results for the associated free energy are compared with the next-to-leading order (NLO) approximation of the Nambu-Goto string model. We find clear evidence for the validity of the effective string model at the level of the NLO truncation.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0601023,
  title  = {High precision Monte Carlo simulations of interfaces in the three-dimensional Ising model: a comparison with the Nambu-Goto effective string model},
  author = {Michele Caselle and Martin Hasenbusch and Marco Panero},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0601023},
  year   = {2009}
}

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20 pages, 1 figure