Measurements of magnetization on the Sierpiński carpet (1904.10645v3)

Abstract: Phase transition of the classical Ising model on the Sierpi\'{n}ski carpet, which has the fractal dimension $\log_3^{~} 8 \approx 1.8927$, is studied by an adapted variant of the higher-order tensor renormalization group method. The second-order phase transition is observed at the critical temperature $T_{\rm c}^{~} \approx 1.478$. Position dependence of local functions is studied through impurity tensors inserted at different locations on the fractal lattice. The critical exponent $\beta$ associated with the local magnetization varies by two orders of magnitude, depending on lattice locations, whereas $T_{\rm c}^{~}$ is not affected. Furthermore, we employ automatic differentiation to accurately and efficiently compute the average spontaneous magnetization per site as a first derivative of free energy with respect to the external field, yielding the global critical exponent of $\beta \approx 0.135$.