Linking numbers for self-avoiding loops and percolation: application to the spin quantum hall transition
Linking numbers for self-avoiding loops and percolation: application to the spin quantum hall transition
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自回避环和渗透的链接数:在自旋量子霍尔跃迁中的应用
DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.84.3507
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发表时间:
1999
影响因子:
8.6
通讯作者:
J. Cardy
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作者:
J. Cardy
Nonlocal twist operators are introduced for the O(n) and Q-state Potts models in two dimensions which count the numbers of self-avoiding loops (respectively, percolation clusters) surrounding a given point. Their scaling dimensions are computed exactly. This yields many results: for example, the number of percolation clusters which must be crossed to connect a given point to an infinitely distant boundary. Its mean behaves as (1/3sqrt[3] pi) |ln( p(c)-p)| as p-->p(c)-. As an application we compute the exact value sqrt[3]/2 for the conductivity at the spin Hall transition, as well as the shape dependence of the mean conductance in an arbitrary simply connected geometry with two extended edge contacts.