R J Baxter 2007 J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 40 12577 doi:10.1088/1751-8113/40/42/S05
R J Baxter
Show affiliationsCorner transfer matrices are a useful tool in the statistical mechanics of simple two-dimensional models. They can be a very effective way of obtaining series expansions of unsolved models, and of calculating the order parameters of solved ones. Here we review these features and discuss the reason why the method fails to give the order parameter of the chiral Potts model.
05.50.+q Lattice theory and statistics (Ising, Potts, etc.)
75.10.Hk Classical spin models
82B23 Exactly solvable models; Bethe ansatz
82B20 Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs
41A58 Series expansions (e.g. Taylor, Lidstone series, but not Fourier series)
Issue 42 (19 October 2007)
Received 8 November 2006
Published 2 October 2007
R J Baxter 2007 J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 40 12577
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