Luca Cervellera

The anisotropic square lattice Ising model with quenched surface disorder

Using exact enumeration, the surface free energy as well as the critical Casimir amplitude and Casimir force are calculated for the square lattice Ising model with anisotropic couplings and quenched surface disorder on one surface in cylinder geometry at criticality. The system shape is characterized by the aspect ratio $L/M$, where the cylinder length $L$ can take arbitrary values, including $L\to\infty$, while the circumference $M$ is varied from $M=4$ to $M=54$, resulting in up to $2^{54}$ numerically exact free energy calculations. A careful $M\to\infty$ extrapolation shows that quenched surface disorder is irrelevant in two dimensions, but gives rise to logarithmic corrections.