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A new implementation of the Finite Lattice Method of series expansion is used to derive low temperature series for the 6-state planar Potts model. This is expected to have Kosterlitz-Thouless transitions between the ordered low-temperature phase and a massless phase, and between the massless phase and a high-temperature disordered phase. In an exploratory study, we have analysed series for the order parameter to order x 59. These series have proved particularly difficult to analyse and when seeking to both locate the transition and confirm the form of the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition, considerable ambiguity is found. If however the form of the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition is assumed, then the series analysis consistently indicates that the lower transition occurs at x L=0.4886(10). A more conservative analysis, which made no assumption about the nature of the transition, led to the estimate x L=0.485(8).
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Enting, I.G., Clisby, N. Series Analysis of a Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition: The 6-State Planar Potts Model. J Stat Phys 145, 696–712 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10955-011-0322-8
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