Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2002-03-07
Journal of Stat. Phys. 110, 671-689 (2003)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
26 pages, 3 figures, to appear in J. Stat. Phys. V 110, March 2003. typos corrected, minor changes in the content
Scientific paper
A seminal milestone in lattice statistics is the exact solution of the enumeration of dimers on a simple-quartic net obtained by Fisher,Kasteleyn, and Temperley (FKT) in 1961. An outstanding related and yet unsolved problem is the enumeration of dimers on a net with vacant sites. Here we consider this vacant-site problem with a single vacancy occurring at certain specific sites on the boundary of a simple-quartic net. First, using a bijection between dimer and spanning tree configurations due to Temperley, Kenyon, Propp, and Wilson, we establish that the dimer generating function is independent of the location of the vacancy, and deduce a closed-form expression for the generating function. We next carry out finite-size analyses of this solution as well as that of the FKT solution. Our analyses lead to a logarithmic correction term in the large-size expansion for the vacancy problem with free boundary conditions. A concrete example exhibiting this difference is given. We also find the central charge c=-2 in the language of conformal field theory for the vacancy problem, as versus the value c=1 when there is no vacancy.
Tzeng Wen-Jer
Wu Fa Yueh
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