Physical review. B, Condensed matter

Percolation properties of the Wolff clusters in planar triangular spin models

P. W. Leung, Christopher L. Henley

Published Jan 1, 1991• 19 citations

Abstract

We formulate the Wolff algorithm as a site-bond percolation problem, apply it to the ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic planar triangular spin models, and study the percolation critical behavior using finite-size scaling. In the former case the Wolff algorithm is successful as an accelerating algorithm, whereas in the latter case it is not. We found the percolation temperatures and the cluster exponents for both models. In the antiferromagnetic model, the percolation temperature is higher than the critical temperature of the spin system. The cluster exponents are found to be the same as the random two-dimensional (2D) percolation. In the ferromagnetic model, the percolation temperature agrees with the critical temperature, and the cluster exponents are different from the random 2D percolation, meaning that they are in different universal classes. For the ferromagnetic model we discuss the mechanism of the cluster growth in the regime of the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition. We also note a relation between the dynamic exponent and the percolation exponents.

DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.43.752

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