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arXiv:2003.09604

Quantum Potts Models on the Sierpiński Pyramid

Roman Krčmár, Mária Zelenayová, Genzor, Jozef, Libor Caha, Peter Rapčan, Tomotoshi Nishino, Andrej Gendiar

Published Mar 21, 2020• 0 citations
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Abstract

Phase transition of the two- and three-state quantum Potts models on the Sierpiński pyramid are studied by means of a tensor network framework, the higher-order tensor renormalization group method. Critical values of the transverse magnetic field and the magnetic exponent $β$ are evaluated. Despite the fact that the Hausdorff dimension of the Sierpiński pyramid is exactly two $( = \log_2^{~} 4)$, the obtained critical properties show that the effective dimension is lower than two.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.2003.09604

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