The challenge of the chiral Potts model
Statistical Mechanics
2016-08-31 v1 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
The chiral Potts model continues to pose particular challenges in statistical mechanics: it is ``exactly solvable'' in the sense that it satisfies the Yang-Baxter relation, but actually obtaining the solution is not easy. Its free energy was calculated in 1988 and the order parameter was conjectured in full generality a year later. However, a derivation of that conjecture had to wait until 2005. Here we discuss that derivation.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0510683,
title = {The challenge of the chiral Potts model},
author = {R. J. Baxter},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0510683},
year = {2016}
}
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22 pages, 3 figures, 29 references