Macroscopic degeneracy and order in the 3D plaquette Ising model

作者:Johnston Desmond A*; Mueller Marco; Janke Wolfhard
来源:Modern Physics Letters B, 2015, 29(20): 1550109.
DOI:10.1142/S0217984915501092

摘要

The purely plaquette 3D Ising Hamiltonian with the spins living at the vertices of a cubic lattice displays several interesting features. The symmetries of the model lead to a macroscopic degeneracy of the low-temperature phase and prevent the definition of a standard magnetic order parameter. Consideration of the strongly anisotropic limit of the model suggests that a layered, "fuki-nuke" order still exists and we confirm this with multi-canonical simulations. The macroscopic degeneracy of the low-temperature phase also changes the finite-size scaling corrections at the first-order transition in the model and we see this must be taken into account when analyzing our measurements.

  • 出版日期2015-7-30