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partial abstract: The $q$-state Potts model partition function (equivalent to the Tutte polynomial) for a lattice strip of fixed width $L_y$ and arbitrary length $L_x$ has the form…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Shu-Chiuan Chang , Robert Shrock

We present a method for calculating transfer matrices for the $q$-state Potts model partition functions $Z(G,q,v)$, for arbitrary $q$ and temperature variable $v$, on cyclic and M\"obius strip graphs $G$ of the square (sq), triangular…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Shu-Chiuan Chang , Robert Shrock

We determine the general structure of the partition function of the $q$-state Potts model in an external magnetic field, $Z(G,q,v,w)$ for arbitrary $q$, temperature variable $v$, and magnetic field variable $w$, on cyclic, M\"obius, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Shu-Chiuan Chang , Robert Shrock

We calculate the partition function $Z(G,Q,v)$ of the $Q$-state Potts model exactly for strips of the square and triangular lattices of various widths $L_y$ and arbitrarily great lengths $L_x$, with a variety of boundary conditions, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Shu-Chiuan Chang , Robert Shrock

The q-state Potts model is a fundamental framework in statistical physics and graph theory, with its partition function encoding rich information about spin configurations. The multivariate Tutte polynomial (known as the partition function…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Sofya Mukhamedzhanova , Bulat Sabirov , Amir Mukhamedzhanov

We compute the partition function of the Potts model with arbitrary values of $q$ and temperature on some strip lattices. We consider strips of width $L_y=2$, for three different lattices: square, diced and `shortest-path' (to be defined in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-13 Pedro D. Alvarez , Fabrizio Canfora , Sebastian A. Reyes , Simon Riquelme

A new algorithm is presented, which allows to calculate numerically the partition function Z_q of the d-dimensional q-state Potts models for arbitrary real values q>0 at any given temperature T with high precision. The basic idea is to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. K. Hartmann

We present a method for calculating transfer matrices for the $q$-state Potts model partition functions $Z(G,q,v)$, for arbitrary $q$ and temperature variable $v$, on strip graphs $G$ of the square (sq), triangular (tri), and honeycomb (hc)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Shu-Chiuan Chang , Robert Shrock

We present exact results on the partition function of the $q$-state Potts model on various families of graphs $G$ in a generalized external magnetic field that favors or disfavors spin values in a subset $I_s = \{1,...,s\}$ of the total set…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-25 Robert Shrock , Yan Xu

We compute the partition function of the $q$-states Potts model on a random planar lattice with $p\leq q$ allowed, equally weighted colours on a connected boundary. To this end, we employ its matrix model representation in the planar limit,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 Max R. Atkin , Benjamin Niedner , John F. Wheater

The Tutte polynomial of a graph, or equivalently the $q$-state Potts model partition function, is a two-variable polynomial graph invariant of considerable importance in both combinatorics and statistical physics. The computation of this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-31 Hanlin Chen , Yuanhua Liao , Hanyuan Deng

Combining tree decomposition and transfer matrix techniques provides a very general algorithm for computing exact partition functions of statistical models defined on arbitrary graphs. The algorithm is particularly efficient in the case of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Andrea Bedini , Jesper Lykke Jacobsen

We derive exact relations between the Potts model partition function, or equivalently the Tutte polynomial, for a network (graph) $G$ and a network obtained from $G$ by (i) by replacing each edge (i.e., bond) of $G$ by two or more edges…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-02-01 Robert Shrock

We present exact solutions for the zero-temperature partition function of the $q$-state Potts antiferromagnet (equivalently, the chromatic polynomial $P$) on tube sections of the simple cubic lattice of fixed transverse size $L_x \times…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jesus Salas , Robert Shrock

The Q-state Potts model can be extended to noninteger and even complex Q in the FK representation. In the FK representation the partition function,Z(Q,a), is a polynomial in Q and v=a-1(a=e^-T) and the coefficients of this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Seung-Yeon Kim , Richard J. Creswick

We present exact calculations of the zero-temperature partition function for the q-state Potts antiferromagnet (equivalently, the chromatic polynomial) for two families of arbitrarily long strip graphs of the square lattice with periodic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Norman Biggs , Robert Shrock

We present an analytic study of the Potts model partition function on two different types of self-similar lattices of triangular shape with non integer Hausdorff dimension. Both types of lattices analyzed here are interesting examples of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-07 Pedro D. Alvarez , Fabrizio Canfora , Luca Parisi

The q-state Potts model can be defined on an arbitrary finite graph, and its partition function encodes much important information about that graph, including its chromatic polynomial, flow polynomial and reliability polynomial. The complex…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alan D. Sokal

In a recent paper we derived the free energy or partition function of the $N$-state chiral Potts model by using the infinite lattice ``inversion relation'' method, together with a non-obvious extra symmetry. This gave us three recursion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. J. Baxter

In this survey, we give a friendly introduction from a graph theory perspective to the q-state Potts model, an important statistical mechanics tool for analyzing complex systems in which nearest neighbor interactions determine the aggregate…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-08-27 L. Beaudin , J. Ellis-Monaghan , G. Pangborn , R. Shrock