Minimal path on the hierarchical diamond lattice

We consider the minimal paths on a hierarchical diamond lattice, where bonds are assigned a random weight. Depending on the initial distribution of weights, we find all possible asymptotic scaling properties. The different cases found are the small-disorder case, the analog of Lévy's distributions with a power-law decay at-, and finally a limit of large disorder which can be identified as a percolation problem. The asymptotic shape of the stable distributions of weights of the minimal path are obtained, as well as their scaling properties. As a side result, we obtain the asymptotic form of the distribution of effective percolation thresholds for finite-size hierarchical lattices.     

Ising models on the pentagon lattice

We solve inhomogeneous Ising models on the pentagon lattice using the transfer matrix formalism. As two special cases we study the ferromagnetic and the fully frustrated antiferromagnetic model on this lattice. The ferromagnet shows a phase transition at someT _c>0 with the usual Ising behaviour. In the frustrated case no transition occurs at any temperature due to frustration. Frustration also causes a nonvanishing rest entropy. We also calculate the spin-spin-correlation for large distance in both cases. In the ferromagnetic model we thus get the magnetization and the expected algebraic (exponential) decay of the correlations at (above)T _c. The correlations of the frustrated model decay exponentially for all temperatures, includingT=0, indicating that evenT=0 belongs to the disordered high temperature phase. Superimposed to the exponential decay the correlation shows an interesting oscillatory behaviour with temperature dependent wave number, i.e. an incommensurate structure.Work performed within the research program of the Sonderforschungsbereich 125, Aachen-Jülich-Köln     

Longest path in percolating hierarchical lattice

We determine numerically the probability distribution for the longest self-avoiding path lengths connecting two distant points on a diluted hierarchical lattice at the percolation threshold. The evolution of this distribution with the system size is studied and the distribution is observed to approach a universal scale-invariant form under proper rescaling of its argument. The longest path length scales as |p ^max| and our estimate for _max=1.816±0.013 is clearly different from the previously estimated _min=1.531+0.002 for the shortest path lengths on the same hierarchical lattice. This gives support to the multifractal behavior of SAWs on percolating clusters.     

Ising models on the lattice Sierpinski gasket

Ferromagnetic Ising models on the lattice Sierpinski gasket are considered. We prove the Dobrushin-Shlosmann mixing condition and discuss corresponding properties of the stochastic Ising models.     

Effect of dilution on a fully frustrated hierarchical lattice

Making use of a renormalization group transformation the effect of dilution is studied on a hierarchical lattice constructed from triangular cells with anti-ferromagnetic bonds. It is concluded that properties of the pure system (fully frustrated) determine essentially the behaviour in the diluted case above the percolation threshold, which for anti-ferromagnetic bonds is found to be greater than the corresponding geometrical percolation threshold for the lattice.     

Solution of lattice gas models in the generalized ensemble on the Bethe lattice

We present the exact Bethe lattice solution for a lattice gas Potts model defined in the generalized ensemble which was previously studied in elucidating the anomalous thermodynamic properties of water. For this model the locus of density maxima (TMD), the locus of isothermal compressibility extrema, (TEC), the spinodal curve, and the percolation curve for four hydrogen bonded molecules are calculated using the Bethe lattice solution. The results confirm qualitative relationships between the TMD, the TEC, and the percolation curve obtained previously from a mean field calculation.     

An iterative method of the solution of Ising lattice models in a magnetic field

A special re-writing of the sum of δ-functions gives a new graphical representation of thermodynamic quantities. The lowering of the number of points on the reference lattice spin in this representation leads to an iterative scheme by use of which equations for correlation functions and for the order parameter are obtained.     

三维钻石型等级晶格上量子Heisenberg系统的临界性质

利用重整化群方法,研究了三维钻石型等级晶格上的各向异性量子Heisenberg模型,获得了系统的相图和临界性质. 结果表明:对于铁磁系统,在各向同性Heisenberg极限下,系统存在有限温度的相变,并计算了系统的序参量和临界指数; 对于反铁磁系统,在各向同性Heisenberg极限下,临界温度不等于零,在临界线上不存在重入行为.     

Ising model in an external field on a hierarchical lattice

The two-dimensional renormalization map of the diamond-hierarchical Ising model in an external field is given, and pictures of the distribution of zeros of the partition function in the complex plane of temperature for varying values of coupling constant and external field are shown. Critical exponents of the model are found, and results are different from those of the Ising model on a two- or three-dimensional regular lattice.     

Reduction of spin glasses applied to the Migdal-Kadanoff hierarchical lattice

A reduction procedure to obtain ground states of spin glasses on sparse graphs is developed and tested on the hierarchical lattice associated with the Migdal-Kadanoff approximation for low-dimensional lattices. While more generally applicable, these rules here lead to a complete reduction of the lattice. The stiffness exponent governing the scaling of the defect energy E with system size L, (E) ~L ^y, is obtained as y ₃ = 0.25546(3) by reducing the equivalent of lattices up to L = 2¹⁰⁰ in d = 3, and as y ₄ = 0.76382(4) for up to L = 2³⁵ in d = 4. The reduction rules allow the exact determination of the ground state energy, entropy, and also provide an approximation to the overlap distribution. With these methods, some well-know and some new features of diluted hierarchical lattices are calculated.     

Triangular lattice Potts models

In this paper we study the 3-state Potts model on the triangular lattice which has two- and three-site interactions. Using a Peierls argument we obtain a rigorous bound on the transition temperature, thereby disproving a conjecture on the location of its critical point. Low-temperature series are generated and analyzed for three particular choices of the coupling constants; a phase diagram is then drawn on the basis of these considerations. Our analysis indicates that the antiferromagnetic transition and the transition along the coexistence line are of first order, implying the existence of a multicritical point in the ferromagnetic region. Relation of the triangularq-state Potts model with other lattice-statistical problems is also discussed. In particular, an Ashkin-Teller model and the hard-hexagon lattice gas solved by Baxter emerge as special cases in appropriate limits.Supported in part by NSF grant No. DMR 78-18808.     

Locally gauge-invariant four-fermion models on a lattice

Two four-fermion models with dynamical symmetry breaking are investigated in arbitrary dimensions using binomial-series resummation. A procedure to treat higher order contributions in 1/N is developed.     

特殊钻石型等级晶格上S4模型的临界性质

应用实空间重整化群和累积展开的方法,研究了外场中特殊钻石型等级晶格上S4模型的相变和临界性质,求出了系统的临界点和临界指数. 结果表明,此系统除了存在一个Gauss不动点外,还存在一个Wilson-Fisher不动点,与该等级晶格上的Gauss模型相比较,系统的临界指数发生了变化.     

Itinerant electron-driven chiral magnetic ordering and spontaneous quantum Hall effect in triangular lattice models

We study the Kondo Lattice and the Hubbard models on a triangular lattice. We find that at the mean-field level, these rotationally invariant models naturally support a noncoplanar chiral magnetic ordering. It appears as a weak-coupling instability at the band filling factor 3/4 due to the perfect nesting of the itinerant electron Fermi surface. This ordering is a triangular-lattice counterpart of the collinear Neel ordering that occurs on the half-filled square lattice. While the long-range magnetic ordering is destroyed by thermal fluctuations, the chirality can persist up to a finite temperature, causing a spontaneous quantum Hall effect in the absence of any externally applied magnetic field.