Exact finite-size scaling with corrections in the two-dimensional Ising model with special boundary conditions

Abstract

The two-dimensional Ising model with Brascamp-Kunz boundary conditions has a partition function more amenable to analysis than its counterpart on a torus. This fact is exploited to exactly determine the full finite-size scaling behaviour of the Fisher zeroes of the model. Moreover, exact results are also determined for the scaling of the specific heat at criticality, for the specific-heat peak and for the pseudocritical points. All corrections to scaling are found to be analytic and the shift exponent $\lambda$ does not coincide with the inverse of the correlation length exponent $1/\nu$.