The zeros of the energy probability distribution: a new way to study phase transitions

We describe an iterative method to study the critical behavior of a system based on the partial knowledge of the complex Fisher zeros set of the partition function. The method is general with advantages over most conventional techniques since it does not need to identify any order parameter a priori...

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Autores: Bismarck Vaz da Costa, Lucas Alvares da Silva Mól, Julio Cesar Siqueira Rocha
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da UFMG
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ufmg.br:1843/80430
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/921/1/012004
http://hdl.handle.net/1843/80430
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0166-4162
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5001-0499
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6428-2946
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Phase transitions
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Sumario:We describe an iterative method to study the critical behavior of a system based on the partial knowledge of the complex Fisher zeros set of the partition function. The method is general with advantages over most conventional techniques since it does not need to identify any order parameter a priori. The critical temperature and exponents can be obtained with great precision. To test the method and to show how it works we applied it to the 2D Ising and 6 − states Potts models. The strategy can easily be adapted to any model, classical or quantum, once we can build the corresponding energy probability distribution.