We present the numerical study of the one-dimensional Potts model with power-law decaying ferromagnetic interactions. The largest cluster probability distribution is obtained by Monte Carlo simulations using the Swendsen–Wang cluster algorithm with cumulative probabilities. The finite-size...

The zeros of the partition function of the ferromagnetic q-state Potts model with long-range interactions in the complex-q plane are studied in the mean-field case, while preliminary numerical results are reported for the finite 1d chains with power-law decaying interactions. In both cases, at...

We examine the order of the phase transition in the Potts model by using the graph representation for the partition function, which allows treating a non-integer number of Potts states. The order of transition is determined by the analysis of the shape of the graph-weight probability...