Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
1999-10-25
Phys. Rev. E 61, 3330 (2000)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
4 pages, 1 figure (included), RevTeX, submitted to Phys. Rev. E as a Rapid Communication
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.61.3330
We investigate the effects of geometric fluctuations, associated with aperiodic exchange interactions, on the critical behavior of $q$-state ferromagnetic Potts models on generalized diamond hierarchical lattices. For layered exchange interactions according to some two-letter substitutional sequences, and irrelevant geometric fluctuations, the exact recursion relations in parameter space display a non-trivial diagonal fixed point that governs the universal critical behavior. For relevant fluctuations, this fixed point becomes fully unstable, and we show the apperance of a two-cycle which is associated with a novel critical behavior. We use scaling arguments to calculate the critical exponent $\alpha$ of the specific heat, which turns out to be different from the value for the uniform case. We check the scaling predictions by a direct numerical analysis of the singularity of the thermodynamic free-energy. The agreement between scaling and direct calculations is excellent for stronger singularities (large values of $q$). The critical exponents do not depend on the strengths of the exchange interactions.
Haddad T. A. S.
Pinho Suani T. R.
Salinas Silvio R.
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