%0 Journal Article
%T Planar ordering in the plaquette-only gonihedric Ising model
%A Marco Mueller
%A Wolfhard Janke
%A Desmond A. Johnston
%J Physics
%D 2014
%I arXiv
%R 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2015.02.020
%X In this paper we conduct a careful multicanonical simulation of the isotropic $3d$ plaquette ("gonihedric") Ising model and confirm that a planar, fuki-nuke type order characterises the low-temperature phase of the model. From consideration of the anisotropic limit of the model we define a class of order parameters which can distinguish the low- and high-temperature phases in both the anisotropic and isotropic cases. We also verify the recently voiced suspicion that the order parameter like behaviour of the standard magnetic susceptibility $\chi_m$ seen in previous Metropolis simulations was an artefact of the algorithm failing to explore the phase space of the macroscopically degenerate low-temperature phase. $\chi_m$ is therefore not a suitable order parameter for the model.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.4426v2