The challenge of the chiral Potts model

R. J. Baxter

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/42/1/003

The challenge of the chiral Potts model

R. J. Baxter^*

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The chiral Potts model continues to pose particular challenges in statistical mechanics: it is exactly solvable in the sense that it satisfies the Yang-Baxter relation, but actually obtaining the solution is not easy. Its free energy was calculated in 1988 and the order parameter was conjectured in full generality a year later. However, a derivation of that conjecture had to wait until 2005. Here we discuss that derivation.

Original language	English
Article number	003
Pages (from-to)	11-24
Number of pages	14
Journal	Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Volume	42
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/42/1/003
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2006

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