About domainwhale

I'm a grad student at UC Berkeley. I'm interested in a lot of things: symmetry, topology, emergent phenomena, and physical genericity. These things are all related somehow. I also like to make art (sometimes inspired by these ideas) and go outside. I'm passionate about cooperative living and direct democracy.

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High Temperature and Low Duality for the Ising Model on an Infinite Regular Tree

February 7, 2016/1 Comment/in Physics Articles, Thermodynamics/by domainwhale

Today I felt like sharing a computation that I thought was interesting. I’m sure I’m not the first to explore the Ising-Ising duality in this context, but I haven’t found a reference, so here we go. The Ising model, for those uninitiated, is an idealized model of a ferromagnet. One image is a crystal where…