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Title: Monte Carlo renormalization-group study of the Baxter-Wu model

Journal Article · · Phys. Rev. B: Condens. Matter; (United States)

The effectiveness of a Monte Carlo renormalization-group method is studied by applying it to the Baxter-Wu model (Ising spins on a triangular lattice with three-spin interactions). The calculations yield three relevent eigenvalues in good agreement with exact or conjectured results. We demonstrate that the method is capable of distinguishing between models expected to be in the same universality class, when one of them (four-state Potts) exhibits logarithmic corrections to the usual power-law singularities and the other (Baxter-Wu) does not.

Research Organization:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602
OSTI ID:
5076199
Journal Information:
Phys. Rev. B: Condens. Matter; (United States), Vol. 26:1
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English