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Physical Review Letters

Simple Method to Calculate Percolation, Ising, and Potts Clusters: Renormalization-Group Applications

Constantino Tsallis, Silvio V. F. Levy

Published Sep 28, 1981• 97 citations
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Abstract

We introduce a procedure which considerably simplifies the calculation of clusters like those commonly appearing in real-space renormalization-group treatments of bond-percolation and pure and random Ising and Potts problems. The method is illustrated through two applications for the $q$-state Potts ferromagnet.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.47.950

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