title: Phase diagram and critical exponents of a Potts gauge glass.
abstract: The two-dimensional q-state Potts model is subjected to a Z(q) symmetric disorder that allows for the existence of a Nishimori line. At q=2, this model coincides with the +/- J random-bond Ising model. For q>2, apart from the usual pure- and zero-temperature fixed points, the ferro/paramagnetic phase boundary is controlled by two critical fixed points: a weak disorder point, whose universality class is that of the ferromagnetic bond-disordered Potts model, and a strong disorder point which generalizes the usual Nishimori point. We numerically study the case q=3, tracing out the phase diagram and precisely determining the critical exponents. The universality class of the Nishimori point is inconsistent with percolation on Potts clusters.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques, Université Paris-Sud, Bâtiment 100, 91405 Orsay, France.
authors.forename: Jesper Lykke
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Jacobsen
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Picco