Two-Dimensional Critical Potts and its Tricritical Shadow

Abstract

These notes give examples of how suitably defined geometrical objects encode in their fractal structure thermal critical behavior. The emphasis is on the two-dimensional Potts model for which two types of spin clusters can be defined. Whereas the Fortuin-Kasteleyn clusters describe the standard critical behavior, the geometrical clusters describe the tricritical behavior that arises when including vacant sites in the pure Potts model. Other phase transitions that allow for a geometrical description discussed in these notes include the superfluid phase transition and Bose-Einstein condensation.

10 pages,9 figures. Contribution to the IV Brazilian Meeting on Simulational Physics (Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 9 - 12 August 2005)

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