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Functional RG approach to the Potts model

Statistical Mechanics 2018-01-17 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The critical behavior of the (n+1)(n+1)-states Potts model in dd-dimensions is studied with functional renormalization group techniques. We devise a general method to derive β\beta-functions for continuos values of dd and nn and we write the flow equation for the effective potential (LPA) when instead nn is fixed. We calculate several critical exponents, which are found to be in good agreement with Monte Carlo simulations and ϵ\epsilon-expansion results available in the literature. In particular, we focus on Percolation (n0)(n\to0) and Spanning Forest (n1)(n\to-1) which are the only non-trivial universality classes in d=4,5d=4,5 and where our methods converge faster.

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@article{arxiv.1707.03410,
  title  = {Functional RG approach to the Potts model},
  author = {Riccardo Ben Ali Zinati and Alessandro Codello},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.03410},
  year   = {2018}
}
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