The use of anticommuting variable integrals in statistical mechanics. I. The computation of partition functions
- 1 December 1980
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Vol. 21 (12) , 2806-2814
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.524404
Abstract
Integrals over anticommuting variables are use to rewrite partition functions as fermionic field theories. The method is used to solve the two-dimensional Ising model, the planar close-packed dimer problems, and the free-fermion eight vertex model.Keywords
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