The Potts model
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This is a tutorial review on the Potts model aimed at bringing out in an organized fashion the essential and important properties of the standard Potts model. Emphasis is placed on exact and rigorous results, but other aspects of the problem are also described to achieve a unified perspective. Topics reviewed include the mean-field theory, duality relations, series expansions, critical properties, experimental realizations, and the relationship of the Potts model with other lattice-statistical problems.
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Some central questions in MQC are related to notions of the statistical physics of classical spin systems, such as the Ising model and the Potts model.
“In this section we show how some of the central questions raised in the study of MQC are related to notions of the statistical physics of classical spin systems, such as the Ising model and the Potts model 97 .”
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- Authors
- Wu, F. Y.
- Affiliations
- Forschungszentrum Jülich (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Wu, F. Y.
- Venue
- Reviews of Modern Physics
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1982-01-01
- Volume
- 54
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 235-268
- ISSN
- 0034-6861 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1965511886
- Cited by
- 3,570
- References
- 226
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 44.32
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Reviews of Modern Physics (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Condensed Matter Physics › Theoretical and Computational Physics
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Mathematical Physics › Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum many-body systems
- Keywords
- Potts model, lattice statistical mechanics, mean-field theory, duality relations, series expansion, critical phenomena, exact results, experimental realization, phase transitions
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