Ashkin-Teller phase transition and multicritical behavior in a classical monomer-dimer model

Abstract

We use Monte Carlo simulations and tensor network methods to study a classical monomer-dimer model on the square lattice with a hole (monomer) fugacity $z$, an aligning dimer-dimer interaction $u$ that favors columnar order, and an attractive dimer-dimer interaction $v$ between two adjacent dimers that lie on the same principal axis of the lattice. The Monte Carlo simulations of finite size systems rely on our grand-canonical generalization of the dimer worm algorithm, while the tensor network computations are based on a uniform matrix product ansatz for the eigenvector of the row-to-row transfer matrix that work directly in the thermodynamic limit. The phase diagram has nematic, columnar order and fluid phases, and a nonzero temperature multicritical point at which all three meet. For any fixed $v/u<\infty$, we argue that this multicritical point continues to be located at a nonzero hole fugacity $z_{\mathrm{mc}}(v/u)>0$; our numerical results confirm this theoretical expectation but find that $z_{\mathrm{mc}}(v/u)\to 0$ very rapidly as $v/u\to \infty$. Our numerical results also confirm the theoretical expectation that the corresponding multicritical behavior is in the universality class of the four-state Potts multicritical point on critical line of the two-dimensional Ashkin-Teller model.

arXiv comment12 pages, 12 figures

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