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Ice model and eight-vertex model on the two-dimensional Sierpinski gasket

Statistical Mechanics 2013-02-19 v1

Abstract

We present the numbers of ice model and eight-vertex model configurations (with Boltzmann factors equal to one), I(n) and E(n) respectively, on the two-dimensional Sierpinski gasket SG(n) at stage nn. For the eight-vertex model, the number of configurations is E(n)=23(3n+1)/2E(n)=2^{3(3^n+1)/2} and the entropy per site, defined as limvlnE(n)/v\lim_{v \to \infty} \ln E(n)/v where vv is the number of vertices on SG(n), is exactly equal to ln2\ln 2. For the ice model, the upper and lower bounds for the entropy per site limvlnI(n)/v\lim_{v \to \infty} \ln I(n)/v are derived in terms of the results at a certain stage. As the difference between these bounds converges quickly to zero as the calculated stage increases, the numerical value of the entropy can be evaluated with more than a hundred significant figures accurate. The corresponding result of ice model on the generalized two-dimensional Sierpinski gasket SG_b(n) with b=3b=3 is also obtained. For the generalized vertex model on SG_3(n), the number of configurations is 2(8×6n+7)/52^{(8 \times 6^n +7)/5} and the entropy per site is equal to 87ln2\frac87 \ln 2. The general upper and lower bounds for the entropy per site for arbitrary bb are conjectured.

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@article{arxiv.1203.1132,
  title  = {Ice model and eight-vertex model on the two-dimensional Sierpinski gasket},
  author = {Shu-Chiuan Chang and Lung-Chi Chen and Hsin-Yun Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.1132},
  year   = {2013}
}

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20 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables