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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 O(N)O(N) model. We first compute the mean-field Green's function with a general coupling of ϕ2n|\vec \phi|^{2n} (with n=3n=3 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 ϵ=3d\epsilon=3 - d expansion. Based on these results, we demonstrate that the tricritical point exhibits an extraordinary transition characterized by an ordered boundary for any NN. 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