On the CFT describing the spin clusters in 2d Potts model

TL;DR

This study uses Monte Carlo simulations to explore the universal properties of spin clusters in the 2D Q-Potts model, providing evidence for a yet unknown conformal field theory describing their connectivity.

Contribution

It offers new numerical insights into the CFT describing spin clusters in the Q-Potts model, including structure constants and critical exponents, especially for Q=2 and Q≠2 cases.

Findings

Numerical data support a consistent CFT for Potts spin clusters.

For Q=2, spin clusters behave as Ising FK clusters at tricriticality.

Measured structure constants suggest imaginary Liouville theory, with deviations for Q≠2.

Abstract

We have considered clusters of like spin in the Q-Potts model, the spin Potts clusters. Using Monte Carlo simulations, we studied these clusters on a square lattice with periodic boundary conditions for values of Q in [1,4]. We continue the work initiated with Delfino and Viti (2013) by measuring the universal finite size corrections of the two-point connectivity. The numerical data are perfectly compatible with the CFT prediction, thus supporting the existence of a consistent CFT, still unknown, describing the connectivity Potts spin clusters. We provided in particular new insights on the energy field of such theory. For Q=2, we found a good agreement with the prediction that the Ising spin clusters behave as the Fortuin-Kasteleyn ones at the tri-critical point of the dilute 1-Potts model. We show that the structure constants are likely to be given by the imaginary Liouville structure constants, consistently with the results of Delfino et al. (2013) and of Ang and Sun (2021). For Q different from 2 instead, the structure constants we measure do not correspond to any known bootstrap solutions. The validity of our analysis is backed up by the measures of the spin Potts clusters wrapping probability for Q=3. We evaluate the main critical exponents and the correction to the scaling. A new exact and compact expression for the torus one-point of the Q-Potts energy field is also given.