Hard squares with negative activity

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2004-08-24

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0408497v1

J. Phys. A38 (2005) 315

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

8 pages

Scientific paper

10.1088/0305-4470/38/2/002

We show that the hard-square lattice gas with activity z= -1 has a number of remarkable properties. We conjecture that all the eigenvalues of the transfer matrix are roots of unity. They fall into groups (``strings'') evenly spaced around the unit circle, which have interesting number-theoretic properties. For example, the partition function on an M by N lattice with periodic boundary condition is identically 1 when M and N are coprime. We provide evidence for these conjectures from analytical and numerical arguments.

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