Critical behavior of a three-state Potts model on a Voronoi lattice

Citation
Fws. Lima et al., Critical behavior of a three-state Potts model on a Voronoi lattice, EUR PHY J B, 17(1), 2000, pp. 111-114
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Apllied Physucs/Condensed Matter/Materiales Science
Journal title
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL B
ISSN journal
14346028 → ACNP
Volume
17
Issue
1
Year of publication
2000
Pages
111 - 114
Database
ISI
SICI code
1434-6028(200009)17:1<111:CBOATP>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
We use the single-histogram technique to study the critical behavior of the three-state Potts model on a (random) Voronoi-Delaunay lattice with size r anging from 250 to 8000 sites. We consider the effect of an exponential dec ay of the interactions with the distance, J(r) = J(0) exp(-ar), with a > 0, and observe that this system seems to have critical exponents gamma and nu which are different from the respective exponents of the three-state Potts model on a regular square lattice. However, the ratio gamma/nu remains ess entially the same. We find numerical evidences (although not conclusive, du e to the small range of system size) that the specific heat on this random system behaves as a power-law for a = 0 and as a logarithmic divergence for a = 0.5 and a = 1.0.