We present a physical interpretation of a number of exotic exponents of the two-dimensional Ising model, i.e., exponents that do have a conformal classification, but outside the unitary grid. They describe the scaling behavior of geometric properties of Ising and random clusters. For instance, the probability that two spins at a distance r lie on the perimeter of the same Ising cluster decays as ${\mathit{r}}^{\mathrm{\ensuremath{-}}5/4}$ at criticality. These results are obtained via mappings on the Coulomb gas. A part of the Coulomb gas scenario is verified by means of finite-size scaling of transfer-matrix results.
We derive an approximate analytic formula for the ground-state energy of the charged anyon gas. Our approach is based on the harmonically confined two-dimensional (2D) Coulomb anyon gas and a regularization procedure for vanishing confinement. To take into account the fractional statistics and Coulomb interaction we introduce a function, which depends on both the statistics and density parameters ($\ensuremath{\nu}$ and
rs, respectively). We determine this function by fitting to the ground-state energies of the classical electron crystal at very large
rs (the 2D Wigner crystal), and to the Hartree-Fock (HF) energy of the spin-polarized 2D electron gas, and the dense 2D Coulomb Bose gas at very small
rs. The latter is calculated by use of the Bogoliubov approximation. Applied to the boson system $(\ensuremath{\nu}=0)$ our results are very close to recent results from Monte Carlo (MC) calculations. For spin-polarized electron systems $(\ensuremath{\nu}=1)$ our comparison leads to a critical judgment concerning the density range, to which the HF approximation and MC simulations apply. In dependence on $\ensuremath{\nu}$, our analytic formula yields ground-state energies, which monotonously increase from the bosonic to the fermionic side if
rs>1. For ${r}_{s}\ensuremath{\leqslant}1$ it shows a nonmonotonous behavior indicating a breakdown of the assumed continuous transformation of bosons into fermions by variation of the parameter $\ensuremath{\nu}$.
We show that a soluble Hamiltonian for interacting fermions in one-dimensional conductors generates a classical double Coulomb gas of "electric" and "magnetic" charges and thereby establishes its equivalence with the generalized Villain model in the presence of a fourfold symmetry-breaking term recently studied by L. P. Kadanoff. We use the exact solution of the fermion model to demonstrate how the eight-vertex structure of the mutual fermion scatterings controls its critical behavior.