Spinor exponents for the two-dimensional Potts model.

Abstract

The spinor operator in the two-dimensional Ising model can be readily generalized to other self-dual models as the product of the order parameter and its dual image, the disorder operator. Recently, the exponent of this and other operators in the $q$-state Potts model received renewed attention, as the theory of conformal invariance produces complete lists of critical exponents for some of these models. In this paper we calculate the critical and tricritical indices of the spinor operator in the two-dimensional $q$-state Potts model, via a well-known mapping into a solid-on-solid model. Our results give a physical identification for the exponents predicted by the conformal theory.