An Ising model in a magnetic field with a boundary

Abstract

We obtain the diagonal reflection matrices for a recently introduced family of dilute ${\rm A}_L$ lattice models in which the ${\rm A}_3$ model can be viewed as an Ising model in a magnetic field. We calculate the surface free energy from the crossing-unitarity relation and thus directly obtain the critical magnetic surface exponent $δ_s$ for $L$ odd and surface specific heat exponent for $L$ even in each of the various regimes. For $L=3$ in the appropriate regime we obtain the Ising exponent $δ_s = -\frac{15}{7}$, which is the first determination of this exponent without the use of scaling relations.