Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
1996-07-16
Phys.Lett. B388 (1996) 14-20
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
Latex + 5 postscript figures, 10 pages of text, figures appended
Scientific paper
10.1016/0370-2693(96)01144-6
We perform extensive Monte Carlo simulations of the 10-state Potts model on quenched two-dimensional $\Phi^3$ gravity graphs to study the effect of quenched coordination number randomness on the nature of the phase transition, which is strongly first order on regular lattices. The numerical data provides strong evidence that, due to the quenched randomness, the discontinuous first-order phase transition of the pure model is softened to a continuous transition, representing presumably a new universality class. This result is in striking contrast to a recent Monte Carlo study of the 8-state Potts model on two-dimensional Poissonian random lattices of Voronoi/Delaunay type, where the phase transition clearly stayed of first order, but is in qualitative agreement with results for quenched bond randomness on regular lattices. A precedent for such softening with connectivity disorder is known: in the 10-state Potts model on annealed Phi3 gravity graphs a continuous transition is also observed.
Baillie C. F.
Janke Wolfhard
Johnston Dana A.
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