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Stable quasicrystalline ground states
cond-mat.stat-mech
We give a strong evidence that noncrystalline materials such as quasicrystals or incommensurate solids are not exceptions but rather are generic in some regions of a phase space. We show this by constructing classical lattice-gas models with translation-invariant, finite-range interactions and with a unique quasiperiod...
physics
6,801
Fractal Dimensions of Confined Clusters in Two-Dimensional Directed Percolation
cond-mat.stat-mech
The fractal structure of directed percolation clusters, grown at the percolation threshold inside parabolic-like systems, is studied in two dimensions via Monte Carlo simulations. With a free surface at y=\pm Cx^k and a dynamical exponent z, the surface shape is a relevant perturbation when k<1/z and the fractal dimens...
physics
6,802
Surface Magnetization of Aperiodic Ising Systems: a Comparative Study of the Bond and Site Problems
cond-mat.stat-mech
We investigate the influence of aperiodic perturbations on the critical behaviour at a second order phase transition. The bond and site problems are compared for layered systems and aperiodic sequences generated through substitution. In the bond problem, the interactions between the layers are distributed according to ...
physics
6,803
Surface Shape and Local Critical Behaviour in Two-Dimensional Directed Percolation
cond-mat.stat-mech
Two-dimensional directed site percolation is studied in systems directed along the x-axis and limited by a free surface at y=\pm Cx^k. Scaling considerations show that the surface is a relevant perturbation to the local critical behaviour when k<1/z where z=\nu_\parallel/\nu is the dynamical exponent. The tip-to-bulk o...
physics
6,804
Anisotropic Scaling in Layered Aperiodic Ising Systems
cond-mat.stat-mech
The influence of a layered aperiodic modulation of the couplings on the critical behaviour of the two-dimensional Ising model is studied in the case of marginal perturbations. The aperiodicity is found to induce anisotropic scaling. The anisotropy exponent z, given by the sum of the surface magnetization scaling dimens...
physics
6,805
Ferromagnetism in Hubbard Models
cond-mat.stat-mech
We present the first rigorous examples of non-singular Hubbard models which exhibit ferromagnetism at zero temperature. The models are defined in arbitrary dimensions, and are characterized by finite-ranged hoppings, dispersive bands, and finite on-site Coulomb interaction U. The picture, which goes back to Heisenberg,...
physics
6,806
Long-range order versus random-singlet phases in quantum antiferromagnetic systems with quenched disorder
cond-mat.stat-mech
The stability of antiferromagnetic long-range order against quenched disorder is considered. A simple model of an antiferromagnet with a spatially varying Neel temperature is shown to possess a nontrivial fixed point corresponding to long-range order that is stable unless either the order parameter or the spatial dimen...
physics
6,807
Breakdown of Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson theory for certain quantum phase transitions
cond-mat.stat-mech
The quantum ferromagnetic transition of itinerant electrons is considered. It is shown that the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson theory described by Hertz and others breaks down due to a singular coupling between fluctuations of the conserved order parameter. This coupling induces an effective long-range interaction between the ...
physics
6,808
Quantum critical behavior of disordered itinerant ferromagnets
cond-mat.stat-mech
The quantum ferromagnetic transition at zero temperature in disordered itinerant electron systems is considered. Nonmagnetic quenched disorder leads to diffusive electron dynamics that induces an effective long-range interaction between the spin or order parameter fluctuations of the form r^{2-2d}, with d the spatial d...
physics
6,809
Self--organized criticality due to a separation of energy scales
cond-mat.stat-mech
Certain systems with slow driving and avalanche-like dissipation events are naturally close to a critical point when the ratio of two energy scales is large. The first energy scale is the threshold above which an avalanche is triggered, the second scale is the threshold above which a site is affected by an avalanche. I...
physics
6,810
Marginal Anisotropy in Layered Aperiodic Ising Systems
cond-mat.stat-mech
Two-dimensional layered aperiodic Ising systems are studied in the extreme anisotropic limit where they correspond to quantum Ising chains in a transverse field. The modulation of the couplings follows an aperiodic sequence generated through substitution. According to Luck's criterion, such a perturbation becomes margi...
physics
6,811
Minimax Games, Spin Glasses and the Polynomial-Time Hierarchy of Complexity Classes
cond-mat.stat-mech
We use the negative replica method, which was originally developed for the study of overfrustation in disordered system, to investigate the statistical behaviour of the cost function of minimax games. These games are treated as hierarchical statistical mechanical systems, in which one of the components is at negative t...
physics
6,812
From Collapse to Freezing in Random Heteropolymers
cond-mat.stat-mech
We consider a two-letter self-avoiding (square) lattice heteropolymer model of N_H (out ofN) attracting sites. At zero temperature, permanent links are formed leading to collapse structures for any fraction rho_H=N_H/N. The average chain size scales as R = N^{1/d}F(rho_H) (d is space dimension). As rho_H --> 0, F(rho_H...
physics
6,813
An extended massless phase and the Haldane phase in a spin-1 isotropic antiferromagnetic chain
cond-mat.stat-mech
We study the phase transition of isotropic spin-1 models in the vicinity of the Uimin-Lai-Sutherland model by using the SU(3)_1 WZW model with certain marginal perturbations. The unstable RG trajectory by a marginally relevant perturbation generates a mass gap for the Haldane phase, and thus the universality class of t...
physics
6,814
Universality properties of the stationary states in the one-dimensional coagulation-diffusion model with external particle input
cond-mat.stat-mech
We investigate with the help of analytical and numerical methods the reaction A+A->A on a one-dimensional lattice opened at one end and with an input of particles at the other end. We show that if the diffusion rates to the left and to the right are equal, for large x, the particle concentration c(x) behaves like As/x ...
physics
6,815
Anisotropic Surface Growth Model in Disordered Media
cond-mat.stat-mech
We introduce a self-organized surface growth model in 2+1 dimensions with anisotropic avalanche process, which is expected to be in the universality class of the anisotropic quenched Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation with alternative signs of the nonlinear KPZ terms. It turns out that the surface height correlation function...
physics
6,816
Criticality in the two-dimensional random-bond Ising model
cond-mat.stat-mech
The two-dimensional (2D) random-bond Ising model has a novel multicritical point on the ferromagnetic to paramagnetic phase boundary. This random phase transition is one of the simplest examples of a 2D critical point occurring at both finite temperatures and disorder strength. We study the associated critical properti...
physics
6,817
Stochastic Lattice Models with Several Absorbing States
cond-mat.stat-mech
We study two models with n equivalent absorbing states that generalize the Domany-Kinzel cellular automaton and the contact process. Numerical investigations show that for n=2 both models belong to the same universality class as branching annihilating walks with an even number of offspring. Unlike previously known mode...
physics
6,818
Quantum critical behavior of itinerant ferromagnets
cond-mat.stat-mech
The quantum ferromagnetic transition of itinerant electrons is considered. We give a pedagogical review of recent results which show that zero-temperature soft modes that are commonly neglected, invalidate the standard Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson description of this transition. If these modes are taken into account, then th...
physics
6,819
Theory of Branching and Annihilating Random Walks
cond-mat.stat-mech
A systematic theory for the diffusion--limited reaction processes $A + A \to 0$ and $A \to (m+1) A$ is developed. Fluctuations are taken into account via the field--theoretic dynamical renormalization group. For $m$ even the mean field rate equation, which predicts only an active phase, remains qualitatively correct ne...
physics
6,820
Surface Critical Behavior of Binary Alloys and Antiferromagnets: Dependence of the Universality Class on Surface Orientation
cond-mat.stat-mech
The surface critical behavior of semi-infinite (a) binary alloys with a continuous order-disorder transition and (b) Ising antiferromagnets in the presence of a magnetic field is considered. In contrast to ferromagnets, the surface universality class of these systems depends on the orientation of the surface with r...
physics
6,821
The duality relation between Glauber dynamics and the diffusion-annihilation model as a similarity transformation
cond-mat.stat-mech
In this paper we address the relationship between zero temperature Glauber dynamics and the diffusion-annihilation problem in the free fermion case. We show that the well-known duality transformation between the two problems can be formulated as a similarity transformation if one uses appropriate (toroidal) boundary co...
physics
6,822
An Analytical and Numerical Study of Optimal Channel Networks
cond-mat.stat-mech
We analyze the Optimal Channel Network model for river networks using both analytical and numerical approaches. This is a lattice model in which a functional describing the dissipated energy is introduced and minimized in order to find the optimal configurations. The fractal character of river networks is reflected in ...
physics
6,823
The Poisson ratio of crystalline surfaces
cond-mat.stat-mech
A remarkable theoretical prediction for a crystalline (polymerized) surface is that its Poisson ratio (\sigma) is negative. Using a large scale Monte Carlo simulation of a simple model of such surfaces we show that this is indeed true. The precise numerical value we find is (\sigma \simeq -0.32) on a (128^2) lattice at...
physics
6,824
Self-organized criticality in a rice-pile model
cond-mat.stat-mech
We present a new model for relaxations in piles of granular material. The relaxations are determined by a stochastic rule which models the effect of friction between the grains. We find power-law distributions for avalanche sizes and lifetimes characterized by the exponents $\tau = 1.53 \pm 0.05$ and $y = 1.84 \pm 0.05...
physics
6,825
Energy avalanches in a rice-pile model
cond-mat.stat-mech
We investigate a one-dimensional rice-pile model. We show that the distribution of dissipated potential energy decays as a power law with an exponent $\alpha=1.53$. The system thus provides a one-dimensional example of self-organized criticality. Different driving conditions are examined in order to allow for compariso...
physics
6,826
Interface roughening with nonlinear surface tension
cond-mat.stat-mech
Using stability arguments, this Brief Report suggests that a term that enhances the surface tension in the presence of large height fluctuations should be included in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation. A one-loop renormalization group analysis then shows for interface dimensions larger than $\simeq 3.3$ an unstable stro...
physics
6,827
A Model for Growth of Binary Alloys with Fast Surface Equilibration
cond-mat.stat-mech
We study a simple growth model for (d+1)-dimensional films of binary alloys in which atoms are allowed to interact and equilibrate at the surface, but are frozen in the bulk. The resulting crystal is highly anisotropic: Correlations perpendicular to the growth direction are identical to a d-dimensional two-layer system...
physics
6,828
Winding Angle Distributions for Directed Polymers
cond-mat.stat-mech
We study analytically and numerically the winding of directed polymers of length $t$ around each other or around a rod. Unconfined polymers in pure media have exponentially decaying winding angle distributions, the decay constant depending on whether the interaction is repulsive or neutral, but not on microscopic detai...
physics
6,829
Matrix Product Eigenstates for One-Dimensional Stochastic Models and Quantum Spin Chains
cond-mat.stat-mech
We show that all zero energy eigenstates of an arbitrary $m$--state quantum spin chain Hamiltonian with nearest neighbor interaction in the bulk and single site boundary terms, which can also describe the dynamics of stochastic models, can be written as matrix product states. This means that the weights in these states...
physics
6,830
Broad Histogram Method
cond-mat.stat-mech
Ferrenberg and Swendsen histogram method is based on Boltzmann probability distribution which presents exponentially decaying tails. Thus, it gives accurate measures only within a narrow window around the simulated temperature. The larger the system, the narrower this window, and the worst the performance of this metho...
physics
6,831
Self similar Barkhausen noise in magnetic domain wall motion
cond-mat.stat-mech
A model for domain wall motion in ferromagnets is analyzed. Long-range magnetic dipolar interactions are shown to give rise to self-similar dynamics when the external magnetic field is increased adiabatically. The power spectrum of the resultant Barkhausen noise is of the form $1/\omega^\alpha$, where $\alpha\approx 1....
physics
6,832
The asymptotic behaviour of the initially separated A + B(static) -> 0 reaction-diffusion systems
cond-mat.stat-mech
We examine the long-time behaviour of A+B \to 0 reaction-diffusion systems with initially separated species A and B. All of our analysis is carried out for arbitrary (positive) values of the diffusion constant D_A of particles A and initial concentrations a_0 and b_0 of A's and B's. We derive general formulae for the l...
physics
6,833
Exact solution of a one-dimensional continuum percolation model
cond-mat.stat-mech
I consider a one dimensional system of particles which interact through a hard core of diameter $\si$ and can connect to each other if they are closer than a distance $d$. The mean cluster size increases as a function of the density $\rho$ until it diverges at some critical density, the percolation threshold. This syst...
physics
6,834
Some Finite Size Effects in Simulations of Glass Dynamics
cond-mat.stat-mech
We present the results of a molecular dynamics computer simulation in which we investigate the dynamics of silica. By considering different system sizes, we show that in simulations of the dynamics of this strong glass former surprisingly large finite size effects are present. In particular we demonstrate that the rela...
physics
6,835
Roughening Induced Deconstruction in (100) Facets of CsCl Type Crystals
cond-mat.stat-mech
The staggered 6-vertex model describes the competition between surface roughening and reconstruction in (100) facets of CsCl type crystals. Its phase diagram does not have the expected generic structure, due to the presence of a fully-packed loop-gas line. We prove that the reconstruction and roughening transitions can...
physics
6,836
Universal Cubic Eigenvalue Repulsion for Random Normal Matrices
cond-mat.stat-mech
Random matrix models consisting of normal matrices, defined by the sole constraint $[N^{\dag},N]=0$, will be explored. It is shown that cubic eigenvalue repulsion in the complex plane is universal with respect to the probability distribution of matrices. The density of eigenvalues, all correlation functions, and level ...
physics
6,837
Damage spreading and dynamic stability of kinetic Ising models
cond-mat.stat-mech
We investigate how the time evolution of different kinetic Ising models depends on the initial conditions of the dynamics. To this end we consider the simultaneous evolution of two identical systems subjected to the same thermal noise. We derive a master equation for the time evolution of a joint probability distributi...
physics
6,838
Exact and asymtotic formulas for overdamped Brownian dynamics
cond-mat.stat-mech
Exact and asymptotic formulas relating to dynamical correlations for overdamped Brownian motion are obtained. These formulas include a generalization of the $f$-sum rule from the theory of quantum fluids, a formula relating the static current-current correlation to the static density-density correlation, and an asympto...
physics
6,839
Correlated percolation and the correlated resistor network
cond-mat.stat-mech
We present some exact results on percolation properties of the Ising model, when the range of the percolating bonds is larger than nearest-neighbors. We show that for a percolation range to next-nearest neighbors the percolation threshold Tp is still equal to the Ising critical temperature Tc, and present the phase dia...
physics
6,840
Monte-Carlo Simulations of the Dynamical Behavior of the Coulomb Glass
cond-mat.stat-mech
We study the dynamical behavior of disordered many-particle systems with long-range Coulomb interactions by means of damage-spreading simulations. In this type of Monte-Carlo simulations one investigates the time evolution of the damage, i.e. the difference of the occupation numbers of two systems, subjected to the sam...
physics
6,841
Dynamic Critical Phenomena in Channel Flow
cond-mat.stat-mech
A simple model of the driven motion of interacting particles in a two dimensional random medium is analyzed, focusing on the critical behavior near to the threshold that separates a static phase from a flowing phase with a steady-state current. The critical behavior is found to be surprisingly robust, being independent...
physics
6,842
Algebraic and Analytic Properties of the One-Dimensional Hubbard Model
cond-mat.stat-mech
We reconsider the quantum inverse scattering approach to the one-dimensional Hubbard model and work out some of its basic features so far omitted in the literature. It is our aim to show that $R$-matrix and monodromy matrix of the Hubbard model, which are known since ten years now, have good elementary properties. We p...
physics
6,843
Localisation Transition of A Dynamic Reaction Front
cond-mat.stat-mech
We study the reaction-diffusion process $A+B\to \emptyset$ with injection of each species at opposite boundaries of a one-dimensional lattice and bulk driving of each species in opposing directions with a hardcore interaction. The system shows the novel feature of phase transitions between localised and delocalised rea...
physics
6,844
Linear stability analysis of the Hele-Shaw cell with lifting plates
cond-mat.stat-mech
The first stages of finger formation in a Hele-Shaw cell with lifting plates are investigated by means of linear stability analysis. The equation of motion for the pressure field (growth law) results to be that of the directional solidification problem in some unsteady state. At the beginning of lifting the square of t...
physics
6,845
Density Matrix and Renormalization for Classical Lattice Models
cond-mat.stat-mech
We review the variational principle in the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method, which maximizes an approximate partition function within a restricted degrees of freedom; at zero temperature, DMRG mini- mizes the ground state energy. The variational principle is applied to two-dimensional (2D) classical l...
physics
6,846
Critical phase of a magnetic hard hexagon model on triangular lattice
cond-mat.stat-mech
We introduce a magnetic hard hexagon model with two-body restrictions for configurations of hard hexagons and investigate its critical behavior by using Monte Carlo simulations and a finite size scaling method for discreate values of activity. It turns out that the restrictions bring about a critical phase which the us...
physics
6,847
Density expansion for transport coefficients: Long-wavelength versus Fermi surface nonanalyticities
cond-mat.stat-mech
The expansion of the conductivity in 2-d quantum Lorentz models in terms of the scatterer density n is considered. We show that nonanalyticities in the density expansion due to scattering processes with small and large momentum transfers, respectively, have different functional forms. Some of the latter are not logarit...
physics
6,848
Comment on "Two Phase Transitions in the Fully frustrated XY Model"
cond-mat.stat-mech
The conclusions of a recent paper by Olsson (Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 2758 (1995), cond-mat/9506082) about the fully frustrated XY model in two dimensions are questioned. In particular, the evidence presented for having two separate chiral and U(1) phase transitions are critically considered.
physics
6,849
SU(ν) Generalization of Twisted Haldane-Shastry Model
cond-mat.stat-mech
The SU($\nu$) generalized Haldane-Shastry spin chain with $1/r^2$ interaction is studied with twisted boundary conditions. The exact wavefunctions of Jastrow type are obtained for every rational value of the twist angle in unit of $2\pi$. The spectral flow of the ground state is then discussed as a function of the twis...
physics
6,850
Transport equations including many-particle correlations for an arbitrary quantum system. General formalism
cond-mat.stat-mech
We present a new method to derive transport equations for quantum many-particle systems. This method uses an equation-of-motion technique and is applicable to systems with bosons and fermions, arbitrary interactions and time-dependent external fields. Using a cluster expansion of the r-particle density matrices the inf...
physics
6,851
Improved transport equations including correlations for electron-phonon systems. Comparison with exact solutions in one dimension
cond-mat.stat-mech
We study transport equations for quantum many-particle systems in terms of correlations by applying the general formalism developed in an earlier paper to exactly soluble electron-phonon models. The one-dimensional models considered are the polaron model with a linear energy dispersion for the electrons and a finite nu...
physics
6,852
Simulation studies of fluid critical behaviour
cond-mat.stat-mech
We review and discuss recent advances in the simulation of bulk critical phenomena in model fluids. In particular we emphasise the extensions to finite-size scaling theory needed to cope with the lack of symmetry between coexisting fluid phases. The consequences of this asymmetry for simulation measurements of quantiti...
physics
6,853
A Transfer Matrix study of the staggered BCSOS model
cond-mat.stat-mech
The phase diagram of the staggered six vertex, or body centered solid on solid model, is investigated by transfer matrix and finite size scaling techniques. The phase diagram contains a critical region, bounded by a Kosterlitz-Thouless line, and a second order line describing a deconstruction transition. In part of the...
physics
6,854
The Low-Energy Fixed Points of Random Quantum Spin Chains
cond-mat.stat-mech
The one-dimensional isotropic quantum Heisenberg spin systems with random couplings and random spin sizes are investigated using a real-space renormalization group scheme. It is demonstrated that these systems belong to a universality class of disordered spin systems, characterized by weakly coupled large effective spi...
physics
6,855
Critical Behavior of O(n)-symmetric Systems With Reversible Mode-coupling Terms: Stability Against Detailed-balance Violation
cond-mat.stat-mech
We investigate nonequilibrium critical properties of $O(n)$-symmetric models with reversible mode-coupling terms. Specifically, a variant of the model of Sasv\'ari, Schwabl, and Sz\'epfalusy is studied, where violation of detailed balance is incorporated by allowing the order parameter and the dynamically coupled conse...
physics
6,856
Models of Passive and Reactive Tracer Motion: an Application of Ito Calculus
cond-mat.stat-mech
By means of Ito calculus it is possible to find, in a straight-forward way, the analytical solution to some equations related to the passive tracer transport problem in a velocity field that obeys the multidimensional Burgers equation and to a simple model of reactive tracer motion.
physics
6,857
Renormalization of Systems with Non-equilibrium Critical Stationary States
cond-mat.stat-mech
We introduce the general formulation of a renormalization method suitable to study the critical properties of non-equilibrium systems with steady-states: the Dynamically Driven Renormalization Group. We renormalize the time evolution operator by computing the rescaled time transition rate between coarse grained states....
physics
6,858
Diffusional Relaxation in Random Sequential Deposition
cond-mat.stat-mech
The effect of diffusional relaxation on the random sequential deposition process is studied in the limit of fast deposition. Expression for the coverage as a function of time are analytically derived for both the short-time and long-time regimes. These results are tested and compared with numerical simulations.
physics
6,859
Exact Solution of a Three-Dimensional Dimer System
cond-mat.stat-mech
We consider a three-dimensional lattice model consisting of layers of vertex models coupled with interlayer interactions. For a particular non-trivial interlayer interaction between charge-conserving vertex models and using a transfer matrix approach, we show that the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the transfer matrix...
physics
6,860
Stationary State Skewness in KPZ Type Growth
cond-mat.stat-mech
Stationary states in KPZ type growth have interesting short distance properties. We find that typically they are skewed and lack particle-hole symmetry. E.g., hill-tops are typically flatter than valley bottoms, and all odd moments of the height distribution function are non-zero. Stationary state skewness can be turne...
physics
6,861
Thermodynamc Approach to Three-Site Antiferromagnetic Ising Model in Chaotic Region
cond-mat.stat-mech
The chaotic properties of the three-site antiferromagnetic Ising model on Husimi tree are investigated in magnetic field. Macroscopic quantity of three-site antiferromagnetic Ising model is generated by one dimensional map. It is shown that in certain parameter setting strange attractors of this map exhibit multifracta...
physics
6,862
Combination of random-barrier and random-trap models
cond-mat.stat-mech
The temperature dependence of the diffusion coefficient of particles is studied on lattices with disorder. A model is investigated with both trap and barrier disorder that was introduced before by Limoge and Bocquet (1990 Phys. Rev. Lett. (65) 60) to explain an Arrhenian temperature-dependence of the diffusion coeffici...
physics
6,863
Forest fires and other examples of self-organized criticality
cond-mat.stat-mech
We review the properties of the self-organized critical (SOC) forest-fire model. The paradigm of self-organized criticality refers to the tendency of certain large dissipative systems to drive themselves into a critical state independent of the initial conditions and without fine-tuning of the parameters. After an intr...
physics
6,864
Coherent propagation of interacting particles in a random potential: the Mechanism of enhancement
cond-mat.stat-mech
Coherent propagation of two interacting particles in $1d$ weak random potential is considered. An accurate estimate of the matrix element of interaction in the basis of localized states leads to mapping onto the relevant matrix model. This mapping allows to clarify the mechanism of enhancement of the localization lengt...
physics
6,865
Density profiles and pair correlation functions of hard spheres in narrow slits
cond-mat.stat-mech
A hard sphere fluid confined by hard, structureless, and parallel walls is investigated using a certain version of weighted density functional theory. The density profile, the excess coverage, the finite size contribution to the free energy, the solvation force, and the total correlation function are determined as func...
physics
6,866
On Critical Exponents and the Renormalization of the Coupling Constant in Growth Models with Surface Diffusion
cond-mat.stat-mech
It is shown by the method of renormalized field theory that in contrast to a statement based on a mathematically ill-defined invariance transformation and found in most of the recent publications on growth models with surface diffusion, the coupling constant of these models renormalizes nontrivially. This implies that ...
physics
6,867
Spin stiffness in the frustrated Heisenberg antiferromagnet
cond-mat.stat-mech
We calculate the spin stiffness of the S=1/2 frustrated Heisenberg antiferromagnet directly from a general formula which is evaluated in the Schwinger boson mean-field approximation. Both N\'eel and collinear ordering are considered. For collinear ordering, we take the anisotropy of this phase into account, unlike prev...
physics
6,868
An efficient implementation of high-order coupled-cluster techniques applied to quantum magnets
cond-mat.stat-mech
We illustrate how the systematic inclusion of multi-spin correlations of the quantum spin-lattice systems can be efficiently implemented within the framework of the coupled-cluster method by examining the ground-state properties of both the square-lattice and the frustrated triangular-lattice quantum antiferromagnets. ...
physics
6,869
Eulerian Walkers as a model of Self-Organised Criticality
cond-mat.stat-mech
We propose a new model of self-organized criticality. A particle is dropped at random on a lattice and moves along directions specified by arrows at each site. As it moves, it changes the direction of the arrows according to fixed rules. On closed graphs these walks generate Euler circuits. On open graphs, the particle...
physics
6,870
Anomalous Height Fluctuation Width in Crossover from Random to Coherent Surface Growths
cond-mat.stat-mech
We study an anomalous behavior of the height fluctuation width in the crossover from random to coherent growths of surface for a stochastic model. In the model, random numbers are assigned on perimeter sites of surface, representing pinning strengths of disordered media. At each time, surface is advanced at the site ha...
physics
6,871
Magnetic and Critical Properties of Alternating Spin Chain with S=1/2,1 in Magnetic Fields
cond-mat.stat-mech
We study an integrable spin chain with an alternating array of spins S=1/2, 1 in external magnetic fields using the Bethe ansatz exact solution. The calculated magnetization possesses a cusp structure at a critical magnetic field H=H_{C}, at which the specific heat shows a divergence property. We also calculate finite-...
physics
6,872
Zero-temperature Hysteresis in Random-field Ising Model on a Bethe Lattice
cond-mat.stat-mech
We consider the single-spin-flip dynamics of the random-field Ising model on a Bethe lattice at zero temperature in the presence of a uniform external field. We determine the average magnetization as the external field is varied from minus infinity to plus infinity by setting up the self-consistent field equations, whi...
physics
6,873
Low-Energy Properties of Regularly Depleted Spin Ladders
cond-mat.stat-mech
We investigate a model for the regularly depleted two-leg spin ladder systems. By using Lieb-Schultz-Mattis theorem, it is rigorously shown that this model realizes massless excitations or, alternatively, a degenerate ground state, although the original spin ladder system has a spin gap and a unique ground state. The g...
physics
6,874
Scaling Limit for the Incipient Spanning Clusters
cond-mat.stat-mech
Scaling limits of critical percolation models show major differences between low and high dimensional models. The article discusses the formulation of the continuum limit for the former case. A mathematical framework is proposed for the direct description of the limiting continuum theory. The resulting structure is exp...
physics
6,875
Growth, Percolation, and Correlations in Disordered Fiber Networks
cond-mat.stat-mech
This paper studies growth, percolation, and correlations in disordered fiber networks. We start by introducing a 2D continuum deposition model with effective fiber-fiber interactions represented by a parameter $p$ which controls the degree of clustering. For $p=1$, the deposited network is uniformly random, while for $...
physics
6,876
A Modified Quantum Renormalization Group for xxz Spin Chain
cond-mat.stat-mech
A simple modification of the standard Renormalization Group (RG) technique for the study of quantum spin systems is introduced. Our method which takes into account the effect of boundary conditions by employing the concept of superblock, may be regarded as a simple way for obtaining first estimates of many properties o...
physics
6,877
Spin-Charge Separation, Anomalous Scaling and the Coherence of Hopping in exactly solved Two Chain Models
cond-mat.stat-mech
The coherence of transport between two one-dimensional interacting Fermi liquids, coupled by single particle hopping and interchain interaction, is examined in the context of two exactly soluble models. It is found that the coherence of the inter-chain hopping depends on the interplay between inter-chain hopping and in...
physics
6,878
Dynamic correlations of antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 XXZ chains at arbitrary temperature from complete diagonalization
cond-mat.stat-mech
All eigenstates and eigenvalues are determined for the spin- 1/2 $XXZ$ chain $H = 2J \sum_i ( S_{i}^{x} S_{i + 1}^{x} + S_{i}^{y} S_{i + 1}^{y} + \Delta S_i^z S_{i + 1}^{z})$ for rings with up to N=16 spins, for anisotropies $\Delta=0 , \cos(0.3\pi)$, and 1. The dynamic spin pair correlations $< S_{l+n}^{\mu}(t) S_l^{\...
physics
6,879
An Objective Definition of Damage Spreading - Application to Directed Percolation
cond-mat.stat-mech
We present a general definition of damage spreading in a pair of models. Using this general framework, one can define damage spreading in an objective manner, that does not depend on the particular dynamic procedure that is being used. The formalism is applied to the Domany-Kinzel cellular automaton in one dimension; t...
physics
6,880
Critical holes in undercooled wetting layers
cond-mat.stat-mech
The profile of a critical hole in an undercooled wetting layer is determined by the saddle-point equation of a standard interface Hamiltonian supported by convenient boundary conditions. It is shown that this saddle-point equation can be mapped onto an autonomous dynamical system in a three-dimensional phase space. The...
physics
6,881
Schwinger-boson approach to quantum spin systems: Gaussian fluctuactions in the "natural" gauge
cond-mat.stat-mech
We compute the Gaussian-fluctuation corrections to the saddle-point Schwinger-boson results using collective coordinate methods. Concrete application to investigate the frustrated J1-J2 antiferromagnet on the square lattice shows that, unlike the saddle-point predictions, there is a quantum nonmagnetic phase for 0.53 <...
physics
6,882
Critical Properties of gapped spin-1/2 chains and ladders in a magnetic field
cond-mat.stat-mech
An interesting feature of spin-1/2 chains with a gap is that they undergo a commensurate-incommensurate transition in the presence of an external magnetic field $H$. The system is in a gapless incommensurate regime for all values of the magnetic field between the lower critical field $H_{c1}$ and an upper critical fiel...
physics
6,883
Heisenberg model with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction: A Schwinger boson study
cond-mat.stat-mech
We present a Schwinger-boson approach to the Heisenberg model with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. We write the anisotropic interactions in terms of Schwinger bosons keeping the correct symmetries present in the spin representation, which allows us to perform a conserving mean-field approximation. Unlike previous st...
physics
6,884
Quantum Renormalization Group for 1 Dimensional Fermion Systems
cond-mat.stat-mech
Inspired by the superblock method of White, we introduce a simple modification of the standard Renormalization Group (RG) technique for the study of quantum lattice systems. Our method which takes into account the effect of Boundary Conditions(BC), may be regarded as a simple way for obtaining first estimates of many p...
physics
6,885
Reentrant Wetting Transition of a Rough Wall
cond-mat.stat-mech
A $2D$ model describing depinning of an interface from a rough, self-affine substrate, is studied by transfer matrix methods. The phase diagram is determined for several values of the roughness exponent, $\zeta_S$, of the attractive wall. For all $\zeta_S>0$ the following scenario is observed. In first place, in contra...
physics
6,886
Deterministic Exclusion Process with a Stochastic Defect: Matrix-Product Ground States
cond-mat.stat-mech
We study a one-dimensional anisotropic exclusion model describing particles moving deterministically on a ring with a single defect across which they move with probability 0 < q < 1. We show that the stationary state of this model can be represented as a matrix-product state.
physics
6,887
Generalized gradient expansions in quantum transport equations
cond-mat.stat-mech
Gradient expansions in quantum transport equations of a Kadanoff-Baym form have been reexamined. We have realized that in a consistent approach the expansion should be performed also inside of the self-energy in the scattering integrals of these equations. In the first perturbation order this internal expansion gives n...
physics
6,888
Generalization of the Mean-Field Ising Model Within Tsallis Thermostatistics
cond-mat.stat-mech
In this study, the mean-field Ising model, using the Bogolyubov inequality which has been obtained in the frame of the generalized statistics, has been investigated.
physics
6,889
Exact results for one dimensional stochastic cellular automata for different types of updates
cond-mat.stat-mech
We study two common types of time-noncontinuous updates for one dimensional stochastic cellular automata with arbitrary nearest neighbor interactions and arbitrary open boundary conditions. We first construct the stationary states using the matrix product formalism. This construction then allows to prove a general conn...
physics
6,890
Critical behaviour of the dilute O(n), Izergin-Korepin and dilute $A_L$ face models: Bulk properties
cond-mat.stat-mech
The analytic, nonlinear integral equation approach is used to calculate the finite-size corrections to the transfer matrix eigen-spectra of the critical dilute O(n) model on the square periodic lattice. The resulting bulk conformal weights extend previous exact results obtained in the honeycomb limit and include the ne...
physics
6,891
Blume-Emery-Griffiths model on the square lattice with repulsive biquadratic coupling
cond-mat.stat-mech
Using a real-space renormalization group procedure with no adjustable parameters, we investigate the Blume-Emery-Griffiths model on the square lattice. The formalism respects sublattice symmetry, allowing the study of both signs of K, the biquadratic exchange coupling. Our results for K>0 are compared with other renorm...
physics
6,892
Spectra of non-hermitian quantum spin chains describing boundary induced phase transitions
cond-mat.stat-mech
The spectrum of the non-hermitian asymmetric XXZ-chain with additional non-diagonal boundary terms is studied. The lowest lying eigenvalues are determined numerically. For the ferromagnetic and completely asymmetric chain that corresponds to a reaction-diffusion model with input and outflow of particles the smallest en...
physics
6,893
Inhomogeneous Reptation of Polymers
cond-mat.stat-mech
We study the motion of long polymers (eg DNA) in a gel under the influence of an external force acting locally on small segments of the polymer. In particular, we examine the dependence of the drift velocity on the position where the force acts and the length of the polymer. As an application, we discuss the possibilit...
physics
6,894
Thermodynamic Properties of a Trapped Interacting Bose Gas
cond-mat.stat-mech
A Bose gas in an external potential is studied by means of the local density approximation. Analytical results are derived for the thermodynamic properties of an ideal Bose gas in a generic power-law trapping potential, and their dependence on the mutual interaction of atoms in the case of a non-ideal Bose gas.
physics
6,895
On the low-temperature phase of the three-state antiferromagnetic Potts model on the simple cubic lattice
cond-mat.stat-mech
The three-state antiferromagnetic Potts model on the simple cubic lattice is investigated using the cluster variation method in the cube and the star-cube approximations. The broken-sublattice-symmetry phase is found to be stable in the whole low-temperature region, contrary to previous results obtained using a modifie...
physics
6,896
Surface Incommensurate Structure in an Anisotropic Model with competing interactions on Semiinfinite Triangular Lattice
cond-mat.stat-mech
An anisotropic spin model on a triangular semiinfinite lattice with ferromagnetic nearest-neighbour interactions and one antiferromagnetic next-nearest-neighbour interaction is investigated by the cluster transfer-matrix method. A phase diagram with <2> antiphase, ferromagnetic, incommensurate, and disordered phase is ...
physics
6,897
The three species monomer-monomer model: A mean-field analysis and Monte Carlo study
cond-mat.stat-mech
We study the phase diagram and critical behavior of a one dimensional three species monomer-monomer surface reaction model. Static Monte Carlo simulations show a phase diagram consisting of a reactive steady state bordered by three equivalent unreactive phases where the surface is saturated with one monomer species. Th...
physics
6,898
Universal fluctuations in the support of the random walk
cond-mat.stat-mech
A random walk starts from the origin of a d-dimensional lattice. The occupation number n(x,t) equals unity if after t steps site x has been visited by the walk, and zero otherwise. We study translationally invariant sums M(t) of observables defined locally on the field of occupation numbers. Examples are the number S(t...
physics
6,899
Generalized Distribution Functions and an Alternative Approach to Generalized Planck Radiation Law
cond-mat.stat-mech
In this study, recently introduced generalized distribution functions are summarized and by using one of these distribution functions, namely generalized Planck distribution, an alternative approach to the generalized Planck law for the blackbody radiation has been tackled.
physics