Phases of the three-state Potts model in three spatial dimensions
High Energy Physics - Lattice
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The three-state Potts model is numerically investigated on three-dimensional simple cubic lattices of up to volume, concentrating on the neighborhood of the first-order phase transition separating the ordered and disordered phases. In both phases clusters of like spins are observed with irregular boundaries. In the ordered phase the two different non-favored spins are found to attract each other with a long but finite range. As a result, the neighborhoods of the non-favored spins are interpreted as domains of the disordered phase. This explains why the first-order phase transitions associated with the global symmetry, including the SU(3) pure-gauge one, are so weak.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9305010,
title = {Phases of the three-state Potts model in three spatial dimensions},
author = {Shigemi Ohta},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9305010},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
6 pages including 5 epsf figures, latex file, RIKEN-AF-NP-154