Two-Dimensional Hydrogen Bonded Crystals without the Ice Rule

Abstract

Models of 2‐dimensional hydrogen bonded crystals obeying the ice rule, which previously have been solved exactly, are generalized by removing the ice rule. Many of the peculiar and unique properties of the solutions for the constrained models are now explained by showing that these models, above critical temperature, are equivalent to new unconstrained models at critical temperature. In addition to locating the critical temperature for the general but unsolved models, we locate the singularities of the ground state energy of a related ring of interacting spins.