We study the criticality of a Potts interface by introducing a froth model which, unlike its solid-on-solid Ising counterpart, incorporates bubbles of different phases. The interface is fractal at the phase transition of a pure system. However, a position space approximation suggests that the probability of loop formation vanishes marginally at a transition dominated by strong random bond disorder. This implies a linear critical interface, and provides a mechanism for the conjectured equivalence of critical random Potts and Ising models.

UNUSUAL UNIVERSALITY OF BRANCHING INTERFACES IN RANDOM-MEDIA

STELLA, ATTILIO;
1995

Abstract

We study the criticality of a Potts interface by introducing a froth model which, unlike its solid-on-solid Ising counterpart, incorporates bubbles of different phases. The interface is fractal at the phase transition of a pure system. However, a position space approximation suggests that the probability of loop formation vanishes marginally at a transition dominated by strong random bond disorder. This implies a linear critical interface, and provides a mechanism for the conjectured equivalence of critical random Potts and Ising models.
1995
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