Boundary operator expansion and extraordinary phase transition in the tricritical O(N) model
Strongly Correlated Electrons
2025-07-01 v2 Statistical Mechanics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We study the boundary extraordinary transition of a three-dimensional (3D) tricritical model. We first compute the mean-field Green's function with a general coupling of (with corresponding to the tricritical model) at the extraordinary phase transition. Then, using layer susceptibility, we obtain the boundary operator expansion for the transverse and longitudinal modes within the expansion. Based on these results, we demonstrate that the tricritical point exhibits an extraordinary transition characterized by an ordered boundary for any . This provides the first nontrivial example of continuous symmetry breaking in 2D in the context of boundary criticality.
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@article{arxiv.2501.06287,
title = {Boundary operator expansion and extraordinary phase transition in the tricritical O(N) model},
author = {Xinyu Sun and Shao-Kai Jian},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.06287},
year = {2025}
}
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40 pages, 4 figures