title: Criticality of a classical dimer model on the triangular lattice.
abstract: We consider a classical interacting dimer model which interpolates between the square lattice case and the triangular lattice case by tuning a chemical potential in the diagonal bonds. The interaction energy simply corresponds to the number of plaquettes with parallel dimers. Using transfer matrix calculations, we find in the anisotropic triangular case a succession of different physical phases as the interaction strength is increased: a short-range disordered liquid dimer phase at low interactions, then a critical phase similar to the one found for the square lattice, and finally a transition to an ordered columnar phase for large interactions. Our results indicate that criticality and nonbipartiteness are compatible in a dimer model. For the isotropic triangular case, we have indications that the system undergoes a first-order phase transition to an ordered phase, without appearance of an intermediate critical phase.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier, 31062 Toulouse, France.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Trousselet
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pujol
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Alet
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Poilblanc