Some Exact Results for the Ashkin-Teller Model

It is shown that various cases of the Ashkin-Teller model on the square, triangular and hexagonal lattices can be transformed by the dual and star-triangle transformations and, further, that these problems can be reduced to special cases of the eight vertex model on the Kagomé lattice. In general, w...

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Published in:Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and physical sciences Mathematical and physical sciences, 1979-03, Vol.365 (1722), p.371-380
Main Authors: Temperley, H. N. V., Ashley, Susan E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Critical points
Free energy
Hexagons
Mathematical lattices
Mathematical models
Model airplanes
Parametric models
Renormalization group
Transition points
Vertices
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Summary:It is shown that various cases of the Ashkin-Teller model on the square, triangular and hexagonal lattices can be transformed by the dual and star-triangle transformations and, further, that these problems can be reduced to special cases of the eight vertex model on the Kagomé lattice. In general, we can only obtain the partition function of the Ashkin-Teller model if we are on its line of fixed points, and it then turns out that it is reducible to the six vertex model. Since the partition function of the q-state Potts model at its critical point can also be related to the six vertex model, a direct connection between the Ashkin-Teller model and the Potts model can be made. It turns out that moving along the critical line of the Ashkin-Teller model corresponds to varying q for the Potts model. For the square lattice comparison is made with renormalization group calculations, and the agreement found is a satisfactory check of renormalization group theory.
ISSN:1364-5021
0080-4630
1471-2946
2053-9169
DOI:10.1098/rspa.1979.0023