Critical Behavior of the Spin-1/2 Baxter-Wu Model: Entropic Sampling Simulations

Abstract

In this work we use a refined entropic sampling technique based on the Wang-Landau method to study the spin-$1/2$ Baxter-Wu model. The static critical exponents were determined as $\alpha=0.6545(68)$, $\beta=0.0818(30)$, $\gamma=1.18193(77)$, and $\nu=0.66341(47)$. The estimate for the critical temperature was $T_c=2.269194(45)$. We compare the present results with those obtained from other well established approaches and we find a startling closeness with the exact values, besides the high precision reached for the critical temperature. We also calculate the coefficients $a$ and $b$ for the divergence of the microcanonical inverse temperature at the ground state achieving an excellent agreement in comparison with the simulation estimates.