Exact solution of generalized models of polymers and percolation in two dimensions

起源于罗德尼巴克斯特的工作，澳大利亚是世界领先的精确可解二维晶格模型。这个项目，在战略基础研究，旨在继续这一传统，并通过解决涉及非局部自由度的二维晶格模型的新类别来扩展它。由于这将导致不同范围的聚合物类系统的热力学行为的新的通用类，开发和商业化的潜力几乎是无限的。潜在的应用包括污染物通过含水层的渗透、流行病和火灾的空间传播、石油的三次开采和饮用水的过滤。

Originating with the work of Rodney Baxter, Australia is the world leader in exactly solvable lattice models in two dimensions. This project, in strategic basic research, aims to continue this tradition and extend it by solving exactly new classes of two-dimensional lattice models involving nonlocal degrees of freedom. Since this will lead to new universal classes of thermodynamic behaviours for a diverse range of polymer-like systems, the potential for exploitation and commercialization is almost limitless. Potential applications include percolation of contaminants through aquifers, the spatial spread of epidemics and bushfires, the tertiary recovery of oil and filtering drinking water.