New renormalization group study of the 3-state Potts model and related statistical models
José Gaite
The critical behavior of three-state statistical models invariant under the full symmetry group S 3 and its dependence on space dimension have been a matter of interest and debate. In particular, the phase transition of the 3-state Potts model in three dimensions is believed to be of the first order, without a definitive proof of absence of scale invariance in three-dimensional field theory with S 3 symmetry. This scale invariance should appear as a non-trivial fixed point of the renormalization group, which has not been found. Our new search, with the non-perturbative renormalization group, finds such a fixed point, as a bifurcation from the trivial fixed point at the critical space dimension d = 10 / 3 , which extends continuously to d = 3 . It does not correspond to a second-order phase transition of the 3-state Potts model , but is interesting in its own right. In particular, it shows how the ε -expansion can fail.
arXiv:2407.15497•Nuclear Physics B•Jan 15, 2025•3 citations