Roughness exponent in two-dimensional percolation, Potts model, and clock model
- 29 May 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 63 (6), 066133
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.63.066133
Abstract
We present a numerical study of the self-affine profiles obtained from configurations of the q-state Potts (with and 7) and clock models as well as from the occupation states for site percolation on the square lattice. The first and second order static phase transitions of the Potts model are located by a sharp change in the value of the roughness exponent α characterizing those profiles. The low temperature phase of the Potts model corresponds to flat profiles, whereas its high temperature phase is associated with rough ones. For the clock model, in addition to the flat (ferromagnetic) and rough (paramagnetic) profiles, an intermediate rough phase—associated with a soft spin-wave one—is observed. Our results for the transition temperatures in the Potts and clock models are in agreement with the static values, showing that this approach is able to detect the phase transitions in these models directly from the spin configurations, without any reference to thermodynamical potentials, order parameters, or response functions. Finally, we show that the roughness exponent α is insensitive to geometric critical phenomena.
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