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The Widom-Rowlinson model (or the Area-interaction model) is a Gibbs point process in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with the formal Hamiltonian $H(\omega)=\text{Volume}(\cup_{x\in\omega} B_1(x))$, where $\omega$ is a locally finite configuration of points and $B_1(x)$ denotes the unit closed ball centred at $x$. The model is tuned by two parameters: the activity $z>0$ and the inverse temperature $\beta\ge 0$. We investigate the phase transition of the model in the point of view of percolation theory and the liquid-gas transition. First, considering the graph connecting points with distance smaller than $2r>0$, we show that for any $\beta>0$, there exists $00$). We solve partially this conjecture by showing that for $\beta$ large enough the non-uniqueness holds if and only if $z=\beta$. We show also that this critical value $z=\beta$ corresponds to the percolation threshold $ \tilde{z}^a(\beta, r)=\beta$ for $\beta$ large enough, providing a straight connection between these two notions of phase transition., Comment: 30 pages, 1 figure

In this paper we study the phase transition of continuum Widom-Rowlinson measures in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with $q$ types of particles and random radii. Each particle $x_i$ of type $i$ is marked by a random radius $r_i$ distributed by a probability measure $Q_i$ on $\mathbb{R}^+$. The particles of same type do not interact each other whereas particles $x_i$ and $x_j$ with different type $i \neq j$ interact via an exclusion hardcore interaction forcing $r_i+r_j$ to be smaller than $|x_i-x_j|$. In the integrable case (i.e. $\int r^d Q_i(dr), Comment: 25 pages, 0 figure

The classical relationship between the Tutte polynomial of graph theory and the Potts model of statistical mechanics has resulted in valuable interactions between the disciplines. Unfortunately, it does not include the external magnetic fields that appear in most Potts model applications. Here we define the V-polynomial, which lifts the classical relationship between the Tutte polynomial and the zero field Potts model to encompass external magnetic fields. The V-polynomial generalizes Nobel and Welsh's W-polynomial, which extends the Tutte polynomial by incorporating vertex weights and adapting contraction to accommodate them. We prove that the variable field Potts model partition function (with its many specializations) is an evaluation of the V-polynomial, and hence a polynomial with deletion-contraction reduction and Fortuin-Kasteleyn type representation. This unifies an important segment of Potts model theory and brings previously successful combinatorial machinery, including complexity results, to bear on a wider range of statistical mechanics models., Comment: This e-print is an extended version, including additional background information and more detailed proofs, of a paper of the same name that is to appear in Advances in Applied Mathematics

The continuum random cluster model is defined as a Gibbs modification of the stationary Boolean model in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with intensity $z \gt 0$ and the law of radii $Q$. The formal unormalized density is given by $q^{N_{cc}}$ where $q \gt 0$ is a fixed parameter and $N_{cc}$ the number of connected components in the random germ-grain structure. In this paper we prove the existence of the model in the infinite volume regime for a large class of parameters including the case $q \lt 1$ or distributions $Q$ without compact support. In the extreme setting of non integrable radii (i.e. $\int R^d Q(dR)=\infty$) and $q$ is an integer larger than 1, we prove that for $z$ small enough the continuum random cluster model is not unique; two different probability measures solve the DLR equations. We conjecture that the uniqueness is recovered for $z$ large enough which would provide a phase transition result. Heuristic arguments are given. Our main tools are the compactness of level sets of the specific entropy, a fine study of the quasi locality of the Gibbs kernels and a Fortuin-Kasteleyn representation via Widom-Rowlinson models with random radii.

We derive some new structural results for the transfer matrix of square-lattice Potts models with free and cylindrical boundary conditions. In particular, we obtain explicit closed-form expressions for the dominant (at large |q|) diagonal entry in the transfer matrix, for arbitrary widths m, as the solution of a special one-dimensional polymer model. We also obtain the large-q expansion of the bulk and surface (resp. corner) free energies for the zero-temperature antiferromagnet (= chromatic polynomial) through order q^{-47} (resp. q^{-46}). Finally, we compute chromatic roots for strips of widths 9, 111 pages (LaTeX2e). Includes tex file, three sty files, and 19 Postscript figures. Also included are Mathematica files data_CYL.m and data_FREE.m. Many changes from version 1: new material on series expansions and their analysis, and several proofs of previously conjectured results. Final version to be published in J. Stat. Phys

This PhD thesis is concerned with the dilute Ising model, in the region of phase transition. The Ising model is a classical model of statistical mechanics; it has the peculiarity of having two distinct phases at low temperature, which motivated its use for the rigorous study of the phase coexistence phenomenon. Our objective was to extend the description of the phase coexistence phenomenon to the case of random media, that is to say, to the dilute Ising model, when the temperature and the dilution are weak enough for having two phases of opposite magnetization.The thesis is made of four chapters. In a first chapter, we adapt the work of Pisztora to the random media and establish a coarse graining which is compatible with the dilution. In a second chapter, we study in detail the surface tension for that model, for both the Gibbs measure corresponding to a given realization of the media, and the averaged Gibbs measure. We characterize the low temperature limit of both quantities and describe the shape of the corresponding crystals. We show that lower deviations of surface tension happen at surface order and give a lower bound on the rate function with the help of concentration of measure theory. In a third chapter, we describe the phase coexistence phenomenon for both the Gibbs and averaged Gibbs measures. In a fourth and last chapter, we conclude the thesis with an application to the Glauber dynamics, and show that the autocorrelation decays not quicker than an inverse power of time., Cette thèse porte sur le modèle d'Ising dilué, dans la région de transition de phase. Le modèle d'Ising est un modèle classique de la mécanique statistique ; il a la particularité de présenter deux phases distinctes à basse température, ce qui a motivé, entre autres, son utilisation pour l'étude rigoureuse de la coexistence de phases. Notre objectif était d'étendre la description du phénomène de coexistence de phases au cas du milieu aléatoire, c'est-à-dire au modèle d'Ising dilué, lorsque la température et la dilution sont suffisamment faibles pour que deux phases d'aimantation opposées apparaissent.La thèse comporte quatre chapitres. Dans un premier chapitre, nous adaptons les travaux de Pisztora au cas du milieu aléatoire et établissons une procédure de renormalisation compatible avec la dilution. Dans un second chapitre, nous étudions en détail la tension superficielle de ce modèle, pour la mesure de Gibbs correspondant à un milieu fixé, et pour la mesure moyennée. Nous caractérisons la limite à basse température de chacune de ces quantités et décrivons les formes des cristaux correspondants. Nous montrons que les déviations inférieures de la tension superficielle ont un coût surfacique et donnons une borne inférieure sur la fonction de taux à l'aide de méthodes de concentration de la mesure. Dans un troisième chapitre, nous décrivons le phénomène de coexistence de phases, sous la mesure Gibbs et sous la mesure moyennée. Dans un quatrième et dernier chapitre, nous concluons la thèse avec une application à la dynamique de Glauber, et montrons que l'autocorrélation décroît au plus vite comme une puissance inverse du temps.

We study the zero-temperature partition function of the Potts antiferromagnet (i.e., the chromatic polynomial) on a torus using a transfer-matrix approach. We consider square- and triangular-lattice strips with fixed width L, arbitrary length N, and fully periodic boundary conditions. On the mathematical side, we obtain exact expressions for the chromatic polynomial of widths L=5,6,7 for the square and triangular lattices. On the physical side, we obtain the exact ``phase diagrams'' for these strips of width L and infinite length, and from these results we extract useful information about the infinite-volume phase diagram of this model: in particular, the number and position of the different phases., Comment: 72 pages (LaTeX2e). Includes tex file, three sty files, and 26 Postscript figures. Also included are Mathematica files transfer6_sq.m and transfer6_tri.m. Final version to appear in Nucl. Phys. B

We study the chromatic polynomial P_G(q) for m \times n square- and triangular-lattice strips of widths 2\leq m \leq 8 with cyclic boundary conditions. This polynomial gives the zero-temperature limit of the partition function for the antiferromagnetic q-state Potts model defined on the lattice G. We show how to construct the transfer matrix in the Fortuin--Kasteleyn representation for such lattices and obtain the accumulation sets of chromatic zeros in the complex q-plane in the limit n\to\infty. We find that the different phases that appear in this model can be characterized by a topological parameter. We also compute the bulk and surface free energies and the central charge., Comment: 55 pages (LaTeX2e). Includes tex file, three sty files, and 22 Postscript figures. Also included are Mathematica files transfer4_sq.m and transfer4_tri.m. Journal version

We study the q-state Potts model with nearest-neighbor coupling v=e^{\beta J}-1 in the limit q,v \to 0 with the ratio w = v/q held fixed. Combinatorially, this limit gives rise to the generating polynomial of spanning forests; physically, it provides information about the Potts-model phase diagram in the neighborhood of (q,v) = (0,0). We have studied this model on the square and triangular lattices, using a transfer-matrix approach at both real and complex values of w. For both lattices, we have computed the symbolic transfer matrices for cylindrical strips of widths 2 \le L \le 10, as well as the limiting curves of partition-function zeros in the complex w-plane. For real w, we find two distinct phases separated by a transition point w=w_0, where w_0 = -1/4 (resp. w_0 = -0.1753 \pm 0.0002) for the square (resp. triangular) lattice. For w > w_0 we find a non-critical disordered phase, while for w < w_0 our results are compatible with a massless Berker-Kadanoff phase with conformal charge c = -2 and leading thermal scaling dimension x_{T,1} = 2 (marginal operator). At w = w_0 we find a "first-order critical point": the first derivative of the free energy is discontinuous at w_0, while the correlation length diverges as w \downarrow w_0 (and is infinite at w = w_0). The critical behavior at w = w_0 seems to be the same for both lattices and it differs from that of the Berker-Kadanoff phase: our results suggest that the conformal charge is c = -1, the leading thermal scaling dimension is x_{T,1} = 0, and the critical exponents are \nu = 1/d = 1/2 and \alpha = 1., Comment: 131 pages (LaTeX2e). Includes tex file, three sty files, and 65 Postscript figures. Also included are Mathematica files forests_sq_2-9P.m and forests_tri_2-9P.m. Final journal version

We present exact calculations of the Potts model partition function Z(G,q,v) for arbitrary q and temperature-like variable v on n-vertex strip graphs G of the triangular lattice for a variety of transverse widths equal to L vertices and for arbitrarily great length equal to m vertices, with free longitudinal boundary conditions and free and periodic transverse boundary conditions. These have the form Z(G,q,v)=\sum_{j=1}^{N_{Z,G,\lambda}} c_{Z,G,j}(\lambda_{Z,G,j})^{m-1}. We give general formulas for N_{Z,G,j} and its specialization to v=-1 for arbitrary L. The free energy is calculated exactly for the infinite-length limit of the graphs, and the thermodynamics is discussed. It is shown how the internal energy calculated for the case of cylindrical boundary conditions is connected with critical quantities for the Potts model on the infinite triangular lattice. Considering the full generalization to arbitrary complex q and v, we determine the singular locus {\cal B}, arising as the accumulation set of partition function zeros as m\to\infty, in the q plane for fixed v and in the v plane for fixed q., Comment: 59 pages, LaTeX2e. Self-unpacking archive containing the tex file, three sty files, 51 ps files, and a gziped Mathematica file (transfer_Tutte_tri.m.gz). Version published in journal