Phase Transitions in the Two-Dimensional Slightly Diluted Five-Vertex Potts Model

Abstract

Phase transitions in the two-dimensional slightly diluted Potts model on a square lattice at q = 5 have been studied using the computer simulation method. The systems with linear sizes L × L = N, L = 10–120 are considered. It is shown based on the forth-order Binder cumulants and using the histogram analysis of the data that the introduction of nonmagnetic impurities to a spin system described by the two-dimensional Potts model with q = 5 leads to a change of the first-order phase transition to a second-order phase transition.