Roughness exponent in two-dimensional percolation, Potts and clock models

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2001-03-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0103359v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

8 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. E

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.63.066133

We present a numerical study of the self-affine profiles obtained from configurations of the q-state Potts (with q=2,3 and 7) and p=10 clock models as well as from the occupation states for site-percolation on the square lattice. The first and second order static phase transitions of the Potts model are located by a sharp change in the value of the roughness exponent $\alpha$ characterizing those profiles. The low temperature phase of the Potts model corresponds to flat ($\alpha\simeq 1$) profiles, whereas its high temperature phase is associated to rough ($\alpha\simeq 0.5$) ones. For the p=10 clock model, in addition to the flat (ferromagnetic) and rough (paramagnetic) profiles, an intermediate rough ($0.5< \alpha <1$) phase - associated to a soft spin-wave one - is observed. Our results for the transition temperatures in the Potts and clock models are in agreement with the static values, showing that this approach is able to detect the phase transitions in these models directly from the spin configurations, without any reference to thermodynamical potentials, order parameters or response functions. Finally, we show that the roughness exponent $\alpha$ is insensitive to geometric critical phenomena.

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