{ "id": "cond-mat/0510571", "version": "v1", "published": "2005-10-21T11:08:57.000Z", "updated": "2005-10-21T11:08:57.000Z", "title": "Critical line of an n-component cubic model", "authors": [ "Wenan Guo", "Xiaofeng Qian", "Henk W. J. Blöte", "F. Y. Wu" ], "journal": "Phys. Rev. E 73, 026104(2006)", "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevE.73.026104", "categories": [ "cond-mat.stat-mech" ], "abstract": "We consider a special case of the n-component cubic model on the square lattice, for which an expansion exists in Ising-like graphs. We construct a transfer matrix and perform a finite-size-scaling analysis to determine the critical points for several values of n. Furthermore we determine several universal quantities, including three critical exponents. For n<2, these results agree well with the theoretical predictions for the critical O(n) branch. This model is also a special case of the ($N_\\alpha,N_\\beta$) model of Domany and Riedel. It appears that the self-dual plane of the latter model contains the exactly known critical points of the n=1 and 2 cubic models. For this reason we have checked whether this is also the case for 1