Scaling and fractal dimension of Ising clusters at the d=2 critical point

A. L. Stella and C. Vanderzande
Phys. Rev. Lett. 62, 1067 – Published 6 March 1989
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Abstract

Using formal arguments based on conformal invariance and on the connection between correlated-site percolation and the q-state Potts model with vacancies, we show that the exponents describing Ising clusters at Onsager’s critical point are those of the tricritical q=1 Potts model. This implies, in particular, a fractal dimension d¯=(187/96 and a percolative susceptibility exponent γ=(91/48, in good agreement with existing numerical estimates. This is also clearly supported by a new very accurate Monte Carlo finite-size scaling determination. We also conjecture an exponent yJ=(13/24 controlling the crossover between clusters and droplets.

  • Received 15 September 1988

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.62.1067

©1989 American Physical Society

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A. L. Stella

  • Dipartimento di Fisica and Unità di Firenze, Centro Interuniversitario di Struttura della Materia, Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione, Università di Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy
  • Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, I-34100 Trieste, Italy

C. Vanderzande

  • Limburgs Universitair Centrum, B-3610 Diepenbeek, Belgium

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Vol. 62, Iss. 10 — 6 March 1989

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