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Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General

Renormalisation group for the transfer matrix

John Cardy, Néstor Parga

Published Mar 1, 1982• 6 citations
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Abstract

A real space renormalisation group method is developed for the transfer matrix, and applied to the anisotropic two-dimensional Ising model as an example. It is possible to maintain self-duality and so to obtain the exact critical line.
DOI
10.1088/0305-4470/15/3/007

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