High precision renormalization group study of the roughening transition

Martin Hasenbusch, Mihai Marcu and Klaus Pinn

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1994, vol. 208, issue 1, 124-161

Abstract: We confirm the Kosterlitz-Thouless scenario of the roughening transition for three different Solid-On-Solid models: the Discrete Gaussian model, the Absolute-Value-Solid-On-Solid model and the dual transform of the XY-model with standard (cosine) action. The method is based on a matching of the renormalization group flow of the candidate models with the flow of a bona fide KT model, the exactly solvable BCSOS model. The Monte Carlo simulations are performed using efficient cluster algorithms. We obtain high precision estimates for the critical couplings and other non-universal quantities. For the XY-model with cosine action our critical coupling estimate is βXYR = 1.1197 (5). For the roughening coupling of the Discrete Gaussian and the Absolute-Value-Solid-On-Solid model we find KDGR = 0.6645 (6) and KASOSR = 0.8061 (3), respectively.

Date: 1994
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(94)90536-3

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