https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2012-10625-7
Regular Article
Potts model on recursive lattices: some new exact results
1
Centro de Estudios Científicos (CECS), 5110466
Valdivia,
Chile
2
Facultad de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de
Chile, Casilla 306,
22
Santiago,
Chile
a
e-mail: alvarez@cecs.cl
b
e-mail: canfora@cecs.cl
c
e-mail: sreyes@fis.puc.cl
Received: 19 December 2011
Published online: 21 March 2012
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 Ly = 2, for three different lattices: square, diced and ‘shortest-path’ (to be defined in the text). We also get the exact solution for strips of the Kagome lattice for widths Ly = 2,3,4,5. As further examples we consider two lattices with different type of regular symmetry: a strip with alternating layers of width Ly = 3 and Ly = m + 2, and a strip with variable width. Finally we make some remarks on the Fisher zeros for the Kagome lattice and their large q-limit.
Key words: Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
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