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Edge critical behaviour of the two-dimensional tri-critical Ising model

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, , Citation Ian Affleck 2000 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 33 6473 DOI 10.1088/0305-4470/33/37/301

0305-4470/33/37/6473

Abstract

Using previous results from boundary conformal field theory and integrability, a phase diagram is derived for the two-dimensional Ising model at its bulk tri-critical point as a function of boundary magnetic field and boundary spin-coupling constant. A boundary tri-critical point separates phases where the spins on the boundary are ordered or disordered. In the latter range of coupling constant, there is a non-zero critical field where the magnetization is singular. In the former range, as the temperature is lowered, the boundary undergoes a first-order transition while the bulk simultaneously undergoes a second-order transition.

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