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We examine the geometrical and topological properties of surfaces surrounding clusters in the 3--$d$ Ising model. For geometrical clusters at the percolation temperature and Fortuin--Kasteleyn clusters at $T_c$, the number of surfaces of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 V. S. Dotsenko , G. Harris , E. Marinari , E. Martinec , M. Picco , P. Windey

In the strong coupling limit the partition function of SU(2) gauge theory can be reduced to that of the continuous spin Ising model with nearest neighbour pair-interactions. The random cluster representation of the continuous spin Ising…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 Piotr Bialas , Philippe Blanchard , Santo Fortunato , Daniel Gandolfo , Helmut Satz

The class of random-cluster models is a unification of a variety of stochastic processes of significance for probability and statistical physics, including percolation, Ising, and Potts models; in addition, their study has impact on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Geoffrey Grimmett

It is proposed that the $O(n)$ spin and geometrical percolation models can help to study the QCD phase diagram due to the universality properties of the phase transition. In this paper, correlations and fluctuations of various sizes of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-30 Lizhu Chen , Yeyin Zhao , Xiaobing Li , Zhiming Li , Yuanfang Wu

We propose a simple model for periodic clustering of particles under forced oscillation. Effective viscosity is assumed to increase owing to neighboring particles by analogy with the Einstein viscosity law. The linear stability analysis and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-02-12 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi

We investigate the percolation behavior of Fortuin-Kasteleyn--type clusters in the spin-$1/2$ Baxter--Wu model with three-spin interactions on a triangular lattice. The considered clusters are constructed by randomly freezing one of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-23 Alexandros Vasilopoulos , Michail Akritidis , Nikolaos G. Fytas , Martin Weigel

Many spin systems affected by critical slowing down can be efficiently simulated using cluster algorithms. Where such systems have long-range interactions, suitable formulations can additionally bring down the computational effort for each…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-07 Emilio Flores-Sola , Martin Weigel , Ralph Kenna , Bertrand Berche

The paramagnetic-ferromagnetic transition in the Ising model can be described as percolation of suitably defined clusters. We have tried to extend such picture to the confinement-deconfinement transition of SU(2) pure gauge theory, which is…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Fortunato , F. Karsch , P. Petreczky , H. Satz

The concept of conformal field theory provides a general classification of statistical systems on two-dimensional geometries at the point of a continuous phase transition. Considering the finite-size scaling of certain special observables,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-27 M. Weigel , W. Janke

A range of percolation models of cluster systems of composites is discussed. In the models the parameters of the clusters of a substance and inner boundaries were obtained by the Monte Carlo method, and the possibility of affecting the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-18 Alexander Herega

We study with lattice Monte Carlo simulations the relation of global O(2) symmetry breaking in three dimensions to the properties of a geometrically defined vortex loop network. We find that different definitions of constructing a network…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Kajantie , M. Laine , T. Neuhaus , A. Rajantie , K. Rummukainen

The q-state Potts model can be formulated in geometric terms, with Fortuin-Kasteleyn (FK) clusters as fundamental objects. If the phase transition of the model is second order, it can be equivalently described as a percolation transition of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Fortunato , H. Satz

We present results from Monte Carlo simulations to test for ultrametricity and clustering properties in spin-glass models. By using a one-dimensional Ising spin glass with random power-law interactions where the universality class of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-01-26 Helmut G. Katzgraber , Alexander K. Hartmann

The presence of random fields is well known to destroy ferromagnetic order in Ising systems in two dimensions. When the system is placed in a sufficiently strong external field, however, the size of clusters of like spins diverges. There is…

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We discussed hierarchies and rescaling rule of the self similar transformations in Ising models, and define a fractal dimension of an ordered cluster, which minimum corresponds to a fixed point of the transformations. By the fractal…

General Physics · Physics 2010-03-22 You-gang Feng

Multi-particle form factors of local operators in integrable models in two dimensions seem to have the property that they factorize when one subset of the particles in the external states are boosted by a large rapidity with respect to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Balog , P. Weisz

Percolation is a cornerstone concept in physics, providing crucial insights into critical phenomena and phase transitions. In this study, we adopt a kinetic perspective to reveal the scaling behaviors of higher-order gaps in the largest…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-01 Sheng Fang , Qing Lin , Jun Meng , Bingsheng Chen , Jan Nagler , Youjin Deng , Jingfang Fan

A general scheme for devising efficient cluster dynamics proposed in a previous letter [Phys.Rev.Lett. 72, 1541 (1994)] is extensively discussed. In particular the strong connection among equilibrium properties of clusters and dynamic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 V. Cataudella , G. Franzese , M. Nicodemi , A. Scala , A. Coniglio

The clusters of up spins of a two-dimensional Ising ferromagnet undergo a second order percolative transition at temperatures above the Curie point. We show that in the scaling limit the percolation threshold is described by an integrable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-08-11 Gesualdo Delfino

We describe infinite clusters which arise in nearest-neighbour percolation for so-called cocycle measures on the square lattice. These measures arise naturally in the study of random transformations. We show that infinite clusters have a…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ronald Meester