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arXiv:0912.3343 · Physical Review E

Conducting-angle-based percolation in the XY model

Yan-Cheng Wang, Wenan Guo, Bernard Nienhuis, Henk W. J. Blöte

Published Mar 17, 2010• 3 citations
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Abstract

We define a percolation problem on the basis of spin configurations of the two-dimensional XY model. Neighboring spins belong to the same percolation cluster if their orientations differ less than a certain threshold called the conducting angle. The percolation properties of this model are studied by means of Monte Carlo simulations and a finite-size scaling analysis. Our simulations show the existence of percolation transitions when the conducting angle is varied, and we determine the transition point for several values of the XY coupling. It appears that the critical behavior of this percolation model can be well described by the standard percolation theory. The critical exponents of the percolation transitions, as determined by finite-size scaling, agree with the universality class of the two-dimensional percolation model on a uniform substrate. This holds over the whole temperature range, even in the low-temperature phase where the XY substrate is critical in the sense that it displays algebraic decay of correlations.

DOI
10.1103/physreve.81.031117

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We study a percolation problem on a substrate formed by two-dimensional XY spin configurations using Monte Carlo methods. For a given spin configuration, we construct percolation clusters by randomly choosing a direction x in the spin vector space, and then placing a percolation bond between nearest-neighbor sites i and j with probability p(ij)=max(0,1-e(-2Ks(i)(x)s(j)(x))), where K>0 governs the percolation process. A line of percolation thresholds K(c)(J) is found in the low-temperature range J≥J(c), where J>0 is the XY coupling strength. Analysis of the correlation function g(p)(r), defined as the probability that two sites separated by a distance r belong to the same percolation cluster, yields algebraic decay for K≥K(c)(J), and the associated critical exponent depends on J and K. Along the threshold line K(c)(J), the scaling dimension for g(p) is, within numerical uncertainties, equal to 1/8. On this basis, we conjecture that the percolation transition along the K(c)(J) line is of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless type.
We simulate the two-dimensional XY model in the flow representation by a worm-type algorithm, up to linear system size L=4096, and study the geometric properties of the flow configurations. As the coupling strength K increases, we observe that the system undergoes a percolation transition K_{perc} from a disordered phase consisting of small clusters into an ordered phase containing a giant percolating cluster. Namely, in the low-temperature phase, there exhibits a long-ranged order regarding the flow connectivity, in contrast to the quasi-long-range order associated with spin properties. Near K_{perc}, the scaling behavior of geometric observables is well described by the standard finite-size scaling ansatz for a second-order phase transition. The estimated percolation threshold K_{perc}=1.1053(4) is close to but obviously smaller than the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition point K_{BKT}=1.1193(10), which is determined from the magnetic susceptibility and the superfluid density. Various interesting questions arise from these unconventional observations, and their solutions would shed light on a variety of classical and quantum systems of BKT phase transitions.
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Using Monte Carlo and spin dynamics techniques we have investigated the critical behavior of the classical fully frustrated XY and fully frustrated Planar Rotor models in two dimensions in square lattices of size up to 256. We have found that the models have two transitions a Berezinskii-Kosterliz-Thouless transition at TBKT = 0:3655(5) and an Ising transition at TI = 0:3690(3) for the fully frustrated XY model and a Berezinskii-Kosterliz-Thouless transition at TBKT = 0:4410(5) and an Ising transition at TI = 0:4505(5) for the fully frustrated Planar Rotor model. After this _rst step we have simulated the Z2 (Ising) transition in both fully frustrated Planar Rotator and fully frustrated XY models. We have shown that they can be understood as a percolation problem if we de_ne properly the connectivity of the system. The critical exponent of the mean cluster size, is found as = 2:2(2) close to the two dimensional Ising case, = 2:389. The critical Fisher's exponent is obtained as _ = 1:8(1), close to the two dimensional Ising value _ = 2:055. Also, weobtain the critical Z2 temperatures for both models using the percolation criterion which agree very well with other calculations.Some preliminary calculations was done in the XY model in order to obtain the neutron scattering correlation function S(q; !) and the dispersion relation.
The fractal dimensions and the percolation exponents of geometrical spin clusters of like sign at criticality are obtained numerically for an Ising model with temperature dependent annealed bond dilution, also known as the thermalized bond Ising model (TBIM), in two dimensions. For this purpose, a modified Wolff single-cluster Monte Carlo simulation is used to generate equilibrium spin configurations on square lattices in the critical region. A tie-breaking rule is employed to identify nonintersecting spin cluster boundaries along the edges of the dual lattice. The values obtained for the fractal dimensions of the spanning geometrical clusters D c , and their interfaces D I , are in perfect agreement with those reported for the standard two-dimensional ferromagnetic Ising model. Furthermore, the variance of the winding angles results in a diffusivity κ = 3 for the two-dimensional thermalized bond Ising model, thus placing it in the universality class of the regular Ising model. A finite-size scaling analysis of the largest geometrical clusters results in a reliable estimation of the critical percolation exponents for the geometrical clusters in the limit of an infinite lattice size. The percolation exponents thus obtained are also found to be consistent with those reported for the regular Ising model. These consistencies are explained in terms of the Fisher renormalization relations, which express the thermodynamic critical exponents of systems with annealed bond dilution in terms of those of the regular model system.