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====== Spin Models ====== | ====== Spin Models ====== | ||
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Spin models can be classified depending on how many different states are possible at each lattice site and if the set of possible states is continuous or discrete. | Spin models can be classified depending on how many different states are possible at each lattice site and if the set of possible states is continuous or discrete. | ||
- | * Models with a discrete set of states are called Potts models. | + | * Models with a discrete set of states are called **Potts models**. |
- | * Models with a continuous set of states are called n-Vector models | + | * Models with a continuous set of states are called **n-Vector models**. |
Within these subcategories we have different models depending on how many states there are in total. For Potts models, the number of orientations that are possible is denoted by $Q$. For n-vector models, the dimension in which the continuous set of states live at each node is denoted by an $n$. | Within these subcategories we have different models depending on how many states there are in total. For Potts models, the number of orientations that are possible is denoted by $Q$. For n-vector models, the dimension in which the continuous set of states live at each node is denoted by an $n$. | ||
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For $n=1$ and $Q=2$ the two types of models overlap and this special model is known as the [[models:spin_models:ising_model|Ising model]]. | For $n=1$ and $Q=2$ the two types of models overlap and this special model is known as the [[models:spin_models:ising_model|Ising model]]. | ||
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+ | The first of these is the Q-state Potts model (Potts, 1952; Wu, 1982). One assumes that each spin i can be in one of Q possible discrete orientations $\chi_i$ $(\chi_i =,1,2,\ldots,Q)$. If two neighboring spins i and j are in the same orientation, then they contribute an amount $-J$ to the total energy of a configuration. If i and j are in different orientations, they contribute nothing. Thus the interaction Hamiltonian is | ||
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+ | $$\mathcal H(d,s)=-J\sum_{\langle ij\rangle} \chi_i \chi_j$$ | ||
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+ | where $\delta(\chi_i ,\chi_j)=1$ if $\chi_i=\chi_j$, and is zero otherwise. The angular brackets in Eq. (12a) indicate that he summation is over all pairs of nearest-neighbor sites $\langle ij\rangle$. The interaction energy of a pair of neighboring parallel spins is $-J$, so that if $J>0$, the system should order ferromagnetically at $T=0$. | ||
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+ | The second such model is the n-vector model (Stanley, 1968), characterized by spins capable of taking on a continuum of states. The Hamiltonian for the n-vector model is | ||
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+ | $$\mathcal H(d,n)=-J\sum_{\langle ij\rangle} \vec S_i \cdot \vec S_j$$ | ||
+ | Here, the spin $\vec S_i=(S_{i1} ,S_{i2} ,\ldots,S_{in})$ is an n-dimensional unit vector with ($\sum_{\alpha=1}^n S_{i\alpha}^2=1$, and $\vec S_i$ interacts isotropically with spin $\vec S_j$ localized on site j. Two | ||
+ | parameters in the n-vector model are the system dimensionality | ||
+ | d and the spin dimensionality n. The parameter | ||
+ | n is sometimes called the order-parameter symmetry | ||
+ | number; both d and n determine the universality class of | ||
+ | a system for static exponents. | ||
+ | Both the Potts and n-vector hierarchies are generalization | ||
+ | of the simple Ising model of a uniaxial ferromagnet. | ||
+ | <cite>[[https://journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract/10.1103/RevModPhys.71.S358|Scaling, universality, and renormalization: Three pillars of modern critical phenomena]] by H.Eugene Stanley</cite></blockquote> | ||
<tabbox Why is interesting?> | <tabbox Why is interesting?> | ||