We present and analyze low-temperature series and complex-temperature partition function zeros for the q-state Potts model with q = 4 on the honeycomb lattice and q = 3, 4 on the triangular lattice. A discussion is given as to how the locations of the singularities obtained from the series analysis correlate with the complex-temperature phase boundary. Extending our earlier work, we include a similar discussion for the Potts model with q = 3 on the honeycomb lattice and with q = 3, 4 on the kagomé lattice.
We show an exact equivalence of the free energy of the q-state Potts antiferromagnet on a lattice Λ for the full temperature interval 0 ≤ T ≤ ∞ and the free energy of the q-state Potts model on the dual lattice for a semi-infinite interval of complex temperatures (CT). This implies the existence of two quite different types of CT singularities: the generic kind, which does not obey universality or various scaling relations, and a special kind which does obey such properties and encodes information of direct physical relevance. We apply this observation to characterize CT properties of the Potts model on several lattices, to rule out two existing conjectures, and to determine the critical value of q above which the Potts antiferromagnet on the diced lattice has no phase transition. *
We calculate complex-temperature (CT) zeros of the partition function for the q-state Potts model on the honeycomb and kagomé lattices for several values of q. These give information on the CT phase diagrams. A comparison of results obtained for different boundary conditions and a discussion of some CT singularities are given. Among other results, our findings show that the Potts antiferromagnet with q = 4 and q = 5 on the kagomé lattice has no phase transition at either finite or zero temperature.
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