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A brief review is given on the study of the thermodynamic properties of spin models defined on different topologies like small-world, scale-free networks, random graphs and regular and random lattices. Ising, Potts and Blume-Capel models…

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The critical phenomena of two-dimensional (2D) antiferromagnetic $q$-state Potts model on the square lattice with $q=2,3,4,5$ and 6 are investigated using the technique of supervised neural network (NN). Unlike the conventional NN…

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We investigate the ferromagnetic $q$-state Potts model on spherical Fibonacci graphs. These graphs are constructed by embedding quasi-uniform sites on a sphere and defining interactions via a chord-distance cutoff chosen to yield a network…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-13 Zheng Zhou , Xu-Yang Hou , Hao Guo

We consider random q-state Potts models for $3\le q \le 8$ on the square lattice where the ferromagnetic couplings take two values $J_1>J_2$ with equal probabilities. For any q the model exhibits a continuous phase transition both in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Gábor Palágyi , Christophe Chatelain , Bertrand Berche , Ferenc Iglói

We present the results of a multicanonical simulation of the q=20 2-d Potts model in the transition region. This is a very strong first order phase transition. We observe, for the first time, the asymptotic finite size scaling behavior…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 A. Billoire , T. Neuhaus , B. Berg

We study the effects of frozen boundaries in a Monte Carlo simulation near a first order phase transition. Recent theoretical analysis of the dynamics of first order phase transitions has enabled to state the scaling laws governing the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Baig , R. Villanova

We introduce and analyze an open quantum generalization of the q-state Potts-Hopfield neural network, which is an associative memory model based on multi-level classical spins. The dynamics of this many-body system is formulated in terms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Eliana Fiorelli , Igor Lesanovsky , Markus Müller

Machine-learning (ML) models trained on Ising spin configurations have demonstrated surprising effectiveness in classifying phases of Potts models, even when processing severely reduced representations that retain only two spin states. To…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-16 Yi-Lun Du , Nan Su , Konrad Tywoniuk

We solve the antiferromagnetic transition for the Q-state Potts model (defined geometrically for Q generic) on the square lattice. The solution is based on a detailed analysis of the Bethe ansatz equations (which involve staggered source…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jesper Lykke Jacobsen , Hubert Saleur

A majority of studied models for scale-free networks have degree distributions with exponents greater than $2$. Real networks, however, can demonstrate essentially more heavy-tailed degree distributions. We explore two models of scale-free…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-14 Gábor Timár , Sergey N. Dorogovtsev , José Fernando F. Mendes

We evaluate the thermodynamic properties of the 4-state antiferromagnetic Potts model on the Union- Jack lattice using tensor-based numerical methods. We present strong evidence for a previously unknown, "entropy-driven," finite-temperature…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-01-19 Q. N. Chen , M. P. Qin , J. Chen , Z. C. Wei , H. H. Zhao , B. Normand , T. Xiang

We study a generalization of the well-known classical two-dimensional square lattice compass model of XY spins (sometimes referred to as the 90$^\circ$ compass model), which interpolates between the XY model and the compass model. Our model…

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The microscopic model in which nodes interacting with each other are statistical systems is introduced. The nodes conditions are connected with a string of distinct microscopic configurations and depend on external parameters (pressure and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Stepanov

We study the Potts model on locally tree-like random graphs of arbitrary degree distribution. Using a population dynamics algorithm we numerically solve the problem exactly. We confirm our results with simulations. Comparisons with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. C. M. A. Ehrhardt , M. Marsili

The finite lattice method of series expansion has been used to extend low-temperature series for the partition function, order parameter and susceptibility of the $q$-state Potts model to order $z^{56}$ (i.e. $u^{28}$), $z^{47}$, $z^{43}$,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 K M Briggs , I G Enting , A J Guttmann

Universality is a fundamental concept in modern physics. For the $q$-state Potts model, the critical exponents are merely determined by the order-parameter symmetry $S_q$, spatial dimensionality and interaction range, independent of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-08 Zirui Peng , Sheng Fang , Hao Hu , Youjin Deng

We use Monte Carlo simulations to measure the spin-spin correlation function in the disordered phase of two-dimensional $q$-state Potts models with $q=10,15$, and $20$ at the first-order transition point $\beta_t$. To extract the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 Wolfhard Janke , Stefan Kappler

We give a general condition for a discrete spin system with nearest-neighbor interactions on the $\mathbb{Z}^d$ lattice to exhibit long-range order. The condition is applicable to systems with residual entropy in which the long-range order…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-03 Ron Peled , Yinon Spinka

I present results of simulations of the q=10 and q=20 2-d Potts models in the transition region. The asymptotic finite size behavior sets in only for extremely large lattices. We learn from this simulation that finite size scaling cannot be…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-04-26 Alain Billoire

We studied the long-term nonequilibrium dynamics of $q$-state Potts models with $q=4$, $5$, $6$, and $8$ using Monte Carlo simulations on a two-dimensional square lattice. When the contact energies between the nearest neighbors for the…

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