Journal of the Korean Physical Society
Emergent criticalities and phase transitions in a monomer-dimer mixture on a honeycomb lattice
Hiromi Otsuka
Abstract
We study a monomer-dimer mixture on a honeycomb lattice as a simplified model for a spin ice in two dimension. In a low monomer-density region, an effective description is given by the dual sine-Gordon theory. On the other hand, in intermediate and high monomer-density regions, the Potts lattice-gas theory can be adopted. Based on these, we extract a renormalization-group flow diagram, which includes stable and unstable fixed points corresponding to M 5 and M 6 in the minimal models of the conformal field theory. We carry out numerical transfer-matrix calculations to determine the phase diagram, and we provide evidence to check our prediction.