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Paper
Potts models with competing interactions
Abstract
The mock ANNNI model is generalized in replacing the Ising spins by q-state Potts variables. Performing exact dedecoration transformations for general q and using Monte Carlo techniques in two dimensions for q=3, a multitude of distinct spatially modulated long-range ordered phases, as well as phases with algebraic order, are found to spring from multiphase point.