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A. Nihat Berker

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Ferromagnetic and Spin-Glass Finite-Temperature Order but no Antiferromagnetic Order in the d=1 Ising Model with Long-Range Power-Law Interactions

The d=1 Ising ferromagnet and spin glass with long-range power-law interactions J r^-a is studied for all interaction range exponents a by a renormalization-group transformation that simultaneously projects local ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism. In the ferromagnetic case, J>0, a finite-temperature ferromagnetic phase occurs for interaction range 0.74 2, the phase transition temperature discontinuously drops to zero and for a>2 there is no ordered phase above zero temperature, also as predicted by rigorous results. At the other end, on approaching a=0.74 from above, namely increasing the range of the interaction, the phase transition temperature diverges to infinity, meaning that, at all non-infinite temperatures, the system is ferromagnetically ordered. Thus, the equivalent-neighbor interactions regime is entered before (a > 0) the neighbors become equivalent, namely before the interactions become equal for all separations. The critical exponents alpha,beta, gamma,delta,eta,nu are calculated, from a large recursion matrix, varying as function of a. For antiferromagnetic J<0, all triplets of spins at all ranges have competing interactions and this highly frustrated system does not have an ordered phase. In the spin-glass system, where all couplings for all separations are randomly ferromagnetic or antiferromagnetic (with probability p), a finite-temperatures spin-glass phase is obtained in the absence of antiferromagnetic phase. In the spin-glass phase, the signature chaotic behavior under scale change occurs in a richer version than previously: In the long-range interaction of this system, the interactions at every separation become chaotic, yielding a piecewise chaotic interaction function.

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Spin-Glass Phases and Multichaos in the Ashkin-Teller Model

The global phase diagram of the Ashkin-Teller spin glass is calculated in d = 3 spatial dimensions by renormalization-group theory. Depending on the value of the positive or negative four-spin interaction, qualitatively different topologies are found for the spin-glass phase diagram in the usual variables of temperature and fraction of antiferromagnetic nearest-neighbor interactions. Two different spin-glass phases occur. Both spin-glass phases are chaotic. One spin-glass exhibits phase reentrance that is reverse from the reentrances seen in previous spin-glass phase diagrams. Seven different phases: Ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic, entropic ferromagnetic and entropic antiferromagnetic, spin-glass and entropic spin-glass, and disordered phases occur. The entropic ferromagnetic phase unusually but understandably occurs at temperatures above one spin-glass phase. A random disorder line is identified and no phase transition occurs on this lie. Our calculation is exact on the d = 3 hierarchical lattice and Migdal-Kadanoff approximate on the cubic lattice.

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Spinodal and Equilibrium Global Phase Diagram of the d=3 Merged Potts-Cubic-Clock Model: First-Order Equilibrium and Second-Order Spinodal Boundaries with Hidden Topologies from Renormalization-Group Theory

A model that merges the Potts, cubic, and clock models is studied in spatial dimension d=3 by renormalization-group theory. Effective vacancies are included in the renormalization-group initial conditions. In the global phase diagram, 5 different ordered phases, namely ferromagnetic, antiferromagnetic, ferrimagnetic, antiferrimagnetic, axial, and a disordered phase are found, separated by first- and second-order phase boundaries. 8 different phase diagram cross-sections occur. When the effective vacancies are suppressed, the global spinodal phase diagram is found: All disordering phase transitions become second order, the disordered phase recedes, and 17 different phase diagram cross-sections occur, spinodality thus much enriching ordering behavior. In the spinodal phase diagram, the ferrimagnetic and antiferrimagnetic phases have reentrance. The employed renormalization group transformation is exact on the d=3 dimensional hierarchical model and Migdal-Kadanoff approximate on the cubic lattice.

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XY-Ashkin-Teller Phase Diagram in d=3

The phase diagram of the Ashkin-Tellerized XY model in spatial dimension $d=3$ is calculated by renormalization-group theory. In this system, each site has two spins, each spin being an XY spin, that is having orientation continuously varying in 2πradians. Nearest-neighbor sites are coupled by two-spin and four-spin interactions. The phase diagram has ordered phases that are ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic in each of the spins, and phases that are ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic in the multiplicative spin variable. The phase diagram exhibits two symmetrically situated reverse bifurcation points of the phase boundaries. The renormalization-group flows are in terms of the doubly composite Fourier coefficients of the exponentiated energy of nearest-neighbor spins.

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Global Ashkin-Teller Phase Diagrams in Two and Three Dimensions: Multicritical Bifurcation versus Double Tricriticality Endpoint

The global phase diagrams of the Askin-Teller model are calculated in d=2 and 3 by renormalization-group theory that is exact on the hierarchical lattice and approximate on the recently improved Migdal-Kadanoff procedure. Three different ordered phases occur in the dimensionally distinct phase diagrams that reflect three-fold order-parameter permutation symmetry, a closed symmetry line, and a quasi-disorder line. First- and second-order phase boundaries are obtained. In d=2, second-order phase transitions meeting at a bifurcation point are seen. In d=3, first- and second-order phase transitions are separated by tricritical and critical endpoints.

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Nematic Phase of the n-Component Cubic-Spin Spin Glass in d=3: Liquid-Crystal Phase in a Dirty Magnet

A nematic phase, previously seen in the d=3 classical Heisenberg spin-glass system, occurs in the n-component cubic-spin spin-glass system, between the low-temperature spin-glass phase and the high temperature disordered phase, for number of components n >= 3, in spatial dimension d=3, thus constituting a liquid-crystal phase in a dirty (quenched-disordered) magnet. This result is obtained from renormalization-group calculations that are exact on the hierarchical lattice and, equivalently, approximate on the cubic spatial lattice. The nematic phase completely intervenes between the spin-glass phase and the disordered phase. The Lyapunov exponents of the spin-glass chaos are calculated from n=1 up to n=12 and show odd-even oscillations with respect to n.

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Axial, Planar-Diagonal, Body-Diagonal Fields on the Cubic-Spin Spin Glass in d=3: A Plethora of Ordered Phases under Finite Fields

A nematic phase, previously seen in the d=3 classical Heisenberg spin-glass system, occurs in the n-component cubic-spin spin-glass system, between the low-temperature spin-glass phase and the high-temperature disordered phase, for number of spin components n \geq 3, in spatial dimension d=3, thus constituting a liquid-crystal phase in a dirty (quenched-disordered) magnet. Furthermore, under application of a variety of uniform magnetic fields, a veritable plethora of phases are found. Under uniform magnetic fields, 17 different phases and two spin-glass phase diagram topologies (meaning the occurrences and relative positions of the many phases), qualitatively different from the conventional spin-glass phase diagram topology, are seen. The chaotic rescaling behaviors and their Lyapunov exponents are calculated in each of these spin-glass phase diagram topologies. These results are obtained from renormalization-group calculations that are exact on the d=3 hierarchical lattice and, equivalently, approximate on the cubic spatial lattice. Axial, planar-diagonal, or body-diagonal finite-strength uniform fields are applied to n=2 and 3 component cubic-spin spin-glass systems in d=3.

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Driven and Non-Driven Surface Chaos in Spin-Glass Sponges

A spin-glass system with a smooth or fractal outer surface is studied by renormalization-group theory, in bulk spatial dimension d=3. Independently varying the surface and bulk random-interaction strengths, phase diagrams are calculated. The smooth surface does not have spin-glass ordering in the absence of bulk spin-glass ordering and always has spin-glass ordering when the bulk is spin-glass ordered. With fractal (d>2) surfaces, a sponge is obtained and has surface spin-glass ordering also in the absence of bulk spin-glass ordering. The phase diagram has the only-surface-spin-glass ordered phase, the bulk and surface spin-glass ordered phase, and the disordered phase, and a special multicritical point where these three phases meet. All spin-glass phases have distinct chaotic renormalization-group trajectories, with distinct Lyapunov and runaway exponents which we have calculated.

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The Merged Potts-Clock Model: Algebraic and Conventional Multistructured Multicritical Orderings in Two and Three Dimensions

A spin system is studied, with simultaneous permutation-symmetric Potts and spin-rotation-symmetric clock interactions, in spatial dimensions d=2 and 3. The global phase diagram is calculated from the renormalizaton-group solution with the recently improved (spontaneous first-order detecting) Migdal-Kadanoff approximation or, equivalently, with hierarchical lattices with the inclusion of effective vacancies. Five different ordered phases are found: conventionally ordered ferromagnetic, quadrupolar, antiferromagnetic phases and algebraically ordered antiferromagnetic, antiquadrupolar phases. These five different ordered phases and the disordered phase are mutually bounded by first- and second-order phase transitions, themselves delimited by multicritical points: inverted bicritical, zero-temperature bicritical, tricritical, second-order bifurcation, and zero-temperature highly degenerate multicritical points. One rich phase diagram topology exhibits all of these phenomena.

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Reentrant Ferromagnetic Ordering of the Random-Field Heisenberg Model in d>2 Dimensions: Fourier-Legendre Renormalization-Group Theory

The random-magnetic-field classical Heisenberg model is solved in spatial dimensions d>=2 using the recently developed Fourier-Legendre renormalization-group theory for $4π$ steradians continuously orientable spins, with renormalization-group flows of 12,500 variables. The random-magnetic-field Heisenberg model is exactly solved in 10 hierarchical models, for d=2,2.26,2.46,2.58,2.63,2.77,2.89,3. For non-zero random fields, ferromagnetic order is seen for d>2. This ordering shows, at d=3, reentrance as a function of temperature.

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COVID-19 Modeling Based on Real Geographic and Population Data

Intercity travel is one of the most important parameters for combating a pandemic. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in different computational studies involving intercity connections. In this study, the effects of intercity connections during an epidemic such as COVID-19 are evaluated using a new network model. This model considers the actual geographic neighborhood and population density data. This new model is applied to actual Turkish data by the means of provincial connections and populations. A Monte Carlo algorithm with a hybrid lattice model is applied to a lattice with 8,802 data points. Results show that this model is quantitatively very efficient in modeling real world COVID-19 epidemic data based on populations and geographical intercity connections, by the means of estimating the number of deaths, disease spread, and epidemic termination.

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Nematic Ordering in the Heisenberg Spin-Glass System in d=3 Dimensions

Nematic ordering, where the spins globally align along a spontaneously chosen axis irrespective of direction, occurs in spin-glass systems of classical Heisenberg spins in d=3. In this system where the nearest-neighbor interactions are quenched randomly ferromagnetic or antiferromagnetic, instead of the locally randomly ordered spin-glass phase, the system orders globally as a nematic phase. The system is solved exactly on a hierarchical lattice and, equivalently, Migdal-Kadanoff approximately on a cubic lattice. The global phase diagram is calculated, exhibiting this nematic phase, and ferromagnetic, antiferromagnetic, disordered phases. The nematic phase of the classical Heisenberg spin-glass system is also found in other dimensions d>2: We calculate nematic transition temperatures in 24 dimensions in 2<d=<4.

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Lower-Critical Dimension of the Random-Field XY Model and the Zero-Temperature Critical Line

The random-field XY model is studied in spatial dimensions d=3 and 4, and in-between, as the limit q --> \infty of the q-state clock models, by the exact renormalization-group solution of the hierarchical lattice or, equivalently, the Migdal-Kadanoff approximation to the hypercubic lattices. The lower-critical dimension is determined between 3.81 < d_c <4. When the random-field is scaled with q, a line segment of zero-temperature criticality is found in d=3. When the random-field is scaled with q^2, a universal phase diagram is found at intermediate temperatures in d=3.

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Renormalization-Group Theory of the Heisenberg Model in d Dimensions

The classical Heisenberg model has been solved in spatial d dimensins, exactly in d=1 and by the Migdal-Kadanoff approximation in d>1, by using a Fourier-Legendre expansion. The phase transition temperatures, the energy densities, and the specific heats are calculated in arbitrary dimension d. Fisher's exact result is recovered in d=1. The absence of an ordered phase, conventional or algebraic (in contrast to the XY model yielding an algebraically ordered phase), is recovered in d=2. A conventionally ordered phase occurs at d>2. This method opens the way to complex-system calculations with Heisenberg local degrees of freedom.

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First-Order to Second-Order Phase Transition Changeover and Latent Heats of q-State Potts Models in d=2,3 from a Simple Migdal-Kadanoff Adaptation

The changeover from first-order to second-order phase transitions in q-state Potts models is obtained at q_c=2 in spatial dimension d=3 and essentially at q_c=4 in d=2, using a physically intuited simple adaptation of the Migdal-Kadanoff renormalization-group transformation. This simple procedure yields the latent heats at the first-order phase transitions. In both d=2 and 3, the calculated phase transition temperatures, respectively compared with the exact self-duality and Monte Carlo results, are dramatically improved.

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Multifractal Spin-Glass Chaos Projection and Interrelation of Multicultural Music and Brain Signals

A complexity classification scheme is developed from the fractal spectra of spin-glass chaos and demonstrated with multigeographic multicultural music and brain electroencephalogram signals. Systematic patterns are found to emerge. Chaos under scale change is the essence of spin-glass ordering and can be obtained, continuously tailor-made, from the exact renormalization-group solution of Ising models on frustrated hierarchical lattices. The music pieces are from Turkish music, namely Arabesque, Rap, Pop, Classical, and Western music, namely Blues, Jazz, Pop, Classical. A surprising group defection occurs.

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Asymmetric Phase Diagrams, Algebraically Ordered BKT Phase, and Peninsular Potts Flow Structure in Long-Range Spin Glasses

The Ising spin-glass model on the three-dimensional (d=3) hierarchical lattice with long-range ferromagnetic or spin-glass interactions is studied by the exact renormalization-group solution of the hierarchical lattice. The chaotic characteristics of the spin-glass phases are extracted in the form of our calculated, in this case continuously varying, Lyapunov exponents. Ferromagnetic long-range interactions break the usual symmetry of the spin-glass phase diagram. This phase-diagram symmetry-breaking is dramatic, as it is underpinned by renormalization-group peninsular flows of the Potts multicritical type. A Berezinski-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) phase with algebraic order and a BKT-spinglass phase transition with continuously varying critical exponents are seen. Similarly, for spin-glass long-range interactions, the Potts mechanism is also seen, by the mutual annihilation of stable and unstable fixed distributions causing the abrupt change of the phase diagram. On one side of this abrupt change, two distinct spin-glass phases, with finite (chaotic) and infinite (chaotic) coupling asymptotic behaviors are seen with a spin-glass-to-spin-glass phase transition.

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The Effect of Weekend Curfews on Epidemics: A Monte Carlo Simulation

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is being responded with various methods, applying vaccines, experimental treatment options, total lockdowns or partial curfews. Weekend curfews is one of the methods to reduce the amount of infected persons and this method is practically applied in some countries such as Turkey. In this study, the effect of weekend curfews on reducing the spread of a contagious disease, such as COVID-19, is modeled using a Monte Carlo algorithm with a hybrid lattice model. In the simulation setup, a fictional country with three towns and 26,610 citizens were used as a model. Results indicate that applying a weekend curfew reduces the active cases significantly and is one of the efficient ways to fight the epidemic. The results also show that applying personal precautions such as social distancing is important for reducing the number of cases and deaths.

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