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The three-dimensional, three-state Potts Model in an External Field

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-10-31 v1 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We analyze the critical behaviour of the three-dimensional, three-state Potts model in the presence of an external ordering field. From a finite size scaling analysis on lattices of size up to 70**3 we determine the critical endpoint of the line of first order phase transitions as (b_c, h_c) =(0.54938(2), 0.000775(10)). We determine the relevant temperature like and symmetry breaking directions at this second order critical point and explicitly verify that it is in the universality class of the three-dimensional Ising model.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0007019,
  title  = {The three-dimensional, three-state Potts Model in an External Field},
  author = {Frithjof Karsch and Sven Stickan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0007019},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

12 pages, LaTeX2e File, 6 EPS-files

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