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Upper critical dimension of the 3-state Potts model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-12-08 v3 Statistical Mechanics Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We consider the 3-state Potts model in d2d\geq2 dimensions. For dd less than the upper critical dimension dcritd_\text{crit}, the model has a critical and a tricritical fixed point. In d=2d=2, these fixed points are described by minimal models, and so are exactly solvable. For d>2d>2, however, strong coupling makes them difficult to study and there is no consensus on the value of dcritd_\text{crit}. We use the numerical conformal bootstrap to compute critical exponents of both the critical and tricritical fixed points for general dd. In d=2d=2 our results match the expected values, and as we increase dd we find that the critical exponents of each fixed point get closer until they merge near dcrit2.5d_\text{crit}\lesssim 2.5.

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@article{arxiv.2210.09091,
  title  = {Upper critical dimension of the 3-state Potts model},
  author = {Shai M. Chester and Ning Su},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.09091},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

5 pages plus appendices, 5 figures, v3 minor typos corrected