Classical dimers on the triangular lattice

Details Classical dimers on the triangular lattice Classical dimers on the triangular lattice

2002-06-11

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0206159v2

Phys. Rev. B 66, 214513 (2002)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

15 pages, 5 figures. v2: includes analytic value of monomer-monomer correlator, changes title

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.66.214513

We study the classical hard-core dimer model on the triangular lattice. Following Kasteleyn's fundamental theorem on planar graphs, this problem is soluble by Pfaffians. This model is particularly interesting for, unlike the dimer problems on the bipartite square and hexagonal lattices, its correlations are short ranged with a correlation length of less than one lattice constant. We compute the dimer-dimer and monomer-monomer correlators, and find that the model is deconfining: the monomer-monomer correlator falls off exponentially to a constant value sin(pi/12)/sqrt(3) = .1494..., only slightly below the nearest-neighbor value of 1/6. We also consider the anisotropic triangular lattice model in which the square lattice is perturbed by diagonal bonds of one orientation and small fugacity. We show that the model becomes non-critical immediately and that this perturbation is equivalent to adding a mass term to each of two Majorana fermions that are present in the long wavelength limit of the square-lattice problem.

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