Domain wall fluctuations of the six-vertex model at the ice point

Abstract

We report on Monte-Carlo simulations of the six-vertex model with domain wall boundary conditions. In thermal equilibrium such boundary conditions force a fluctuating line separating the disordered region from the perfectly ordered ones. Specifically we study the ice point at which all vertex weights are equal. With high precision the one-point fluctuations of the line are confirmed to be of order $N^{1/3}$ and governed by the Tracy-Widom distribution. Furthermore, the non-universal scaling coefficients are computed for a wide range of interaction strengths. A draft of this paper was completed in January 2019. We improved the presentation and updated references.