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Using the two dimensional $XY-(S(O(3))$ model as a test case, we show that analysis of the Fisher zeros of the canonical partition function can provide signatures of a transition in the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless ($BKT$) universality…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-21 J. C. S. Rocha , L. A. S. Mól , B. V. Costa

Phase transitions are one of the most interesting natural phenomena. For finite systems, one of the concerns in the topic is how to classify a specific transition as being of first, second, or even of a higher order, according to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-18 J. C. S. Rocha , B. V. Costa

I discuss the validity of a result put forward recently by Chomaz and Gulminelli [Physica A 330 (2003) 451] concerning the equivalence of two definitions of first-order phase transitions. I show that distributions of zeros of the partition…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hugo Touchette

The equation of state of a system at equilibrium may be derived from the canonical or the grand canonical partition function. The former is a function of temperature T, while the latter also depends on the chemical potential \mu for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-21 Wytse van Dijk , Calvin Lobo , Allison MacDonald , Rajat K. Bhaduri

We consider how the Lee-Yang description of phase transitions in terms of partition function zeros applies to nonequilibrium systems. Here one does not have a partition function, instead we consider the zeros of a steady-state normalization…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. A. Blythe , M. R. Evans

We discuss the distribution of partition function zeros for the grand-canonical ensemble of the zeta-urn model, where tuning a single parameter can give a first or any higher order condensation transition. We compute the locus of zeros for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-25 P. Bialas , Z. Burda , D. A. Johnston

We present a general, rigorous theory of Lee-Yang zeros for models with first-order phase transitions that admit convergent contour expansions. We derive formulas for the positions and the density of the zeros. In particular, we show that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Marek Biskup , Christian Borgs , Jennifer T. Chayes , Logan J. Kleinwaks , Roman Kotecky

We construct two spin models on lattices (both two and three-dimensional) to study the capability of quantum computational power as a function of temperature and the system parameter. There exists a finite region in the phase diagram such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-19 Tzu-Chieh Wei , Ying Li , Leong Chuan Kwek

Lee-Yang and Fisher zeros are crucial for the study of phase transitions in the grand canonical and the canonical ensembles, respectively. However, these powerful methods do not cover the isothermal-isobaric ensemble (NPT ensemble), which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-27 Timur Aslyamov , Iskander Akhatov

To simulate indistinguishable particles, recent studies of path-integral molecular dynamics formulated their partition function $Z$ as a recurrence relation involving a variable $\xi$, with $\xi=1$(-1) for bosons (fermions). Inspired by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-27 Ran-Chen He , Jia-Xi Zeng , Shu Yang , Cong Wang , Qi-Jun Ye , Xin-Zheng Li

We construct the exact partition function of the Potts model on a complete graph subject to external fields with linear and nematic type couplings. The partition function is obtained as a solution to a linear diffusion equation and the free…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Paolo Lorenzoni , Antonio Moro

The critical properties of an infinitely long Ising strip with finite width L joined periodically or antiperiodically are investigated by analyzing the distribution of partition function zeros. For periodic boundary condition, the the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ming-Chang Huang , Tsong-Ming Liaw , Yu-Pin Luo , Simon C. Lin

We calculate complex-temperature (CT) zeros of the partition function for the $q$-state Potts model on the honeycomb and kagom\'e lattices for several values of $q$. These give information on the CT phase diagrams. A comparison of results…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Heiko Feldmann , Robert Shrock , Shan-Ho Tsai

In this paper we study finite-size effects in the Blume-Capel model through the analysis of the zeros of the partition function. We consider a complete graph and make use of the behaviour of the partition function zeros to elucidate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-09 Yulian Honchar , Mariana Krasnytska , Bertrand Berche , Yurij Holovatch , Ralph Kenna

Since the landmark work of Lee and Yang, locating the zeros of the partition function in the complex magnetic-field plane has become a powerful method for studying phase transitions. Fisher later extended this approach to complex…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-21 Leïla Moueddene , Nikolaos G Fytas , Bertrand Berche

We derive a sufficient condition for zero-freeness of partition functions applicable to lattice gases with possibly complex-valued multi-body interactions. This includes the case of hard-core interactions and, in particular, generalises…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Jan Philipp Neumann

We present calculations of the complex-temperature zeros of the partition functions for 2D Ising models on the square lattice with spin $s=1$, 3/2, and 2. These give insight into complex-temperature phase diagrams of these models in the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 Victor Matveev , Robert Shrock

A recently developed technique for the determination of the density of partition function zeroes using data coming from finite-size systems is extended to deal with cases where the zeroes are not restricted to a curve in the complex plane…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. Janke , D. A. Johnston , R. Kenna

In contrast to the infinite chain, the low-temperature expansion of a one-dimensional free-field Ising model has a strong dependence on boundary conditions. I derive explicit formula for the leading term of the expansion both under open and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-22 Julian Lee

In this succinct note, it is showed that a partition function of equivalent classes of hyperbolic surfaces can be connected to an Ising model located on the boundary of the Poincare disc, as hinted by Poincare's Uniformization theorem and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-29 William Chuang