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Thermodynamics of the 3-State Potts Spin Chain

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-22 v2 Condensed Matter

Abstract

We demonstrate the relation of the infrared anomaly of conformal field theory with entropy considerations of finite temperature thermodynamics for the 3-state Potts chain. We compute the free energy and compute the low temperature specific heat for both the ferromagnetic and anti-ferromagnetic spin chains, and find the central charges for both.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9210146,
  title  = {Thermodynamics of the 3-State Potts Spin Chain},
  author = {Rinat Kedem},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9210146},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

18 pages, LaTex. Preprint # ITP-SB-92-60. References added and first section expanded