Lower bounds on the ground-state entropy of the Potts antiferromagnet on slabs of the simple cubic lattice

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2010 Mar;81(3 Pt 1):031134. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.031134. Epub 2010 Mar 31.

Abstract

We calculate rigorous lower bounds for the ground-state degeneracy per site, W, of the q-state Potts antiferromagnet on slabs of the simple cubic lattice that are infinite in two directions and finite in the third and that thus interpolate between the square (sq) and simple cubic (sc) lattices. We give a comparison with large-q series expansions for the sq and sc lattices and also present numerical comparisons.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Computer Simulation
  • Entropy
  • Magnetics
  • Models, Chemical*