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Critical behavior of certain antiferromagnets with complicated ordering: Four-loop $\ve$-expansion analysis

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

The critical behavior of a complex N-component order parameter Ginzburg-Landau model with isotropic and cubic interactions describing antiferromagnetic and structural phase transitions in certain crystals with complicated ordering is studied in the framework of the four-loop renormalization group (RG) approach in (4\ve)(4-\ve) dimensions. By using dimensional regularization and the minimal subtraction scheme, the perturbative expansions for RG functions are deduced and resummed by the Borel-Leroy transformation combined with a conformal mapping. Investigation of the global structure of RG flows for the physically significant cases N=2 and N=3 shows that the model has an anisotropic stable fixed point governing the continuous phase transitions with new critical exponents. This is supported by the estimate of the critical dimensionality Nc=1.445(20)N_c=1.445(20) obtained from six loops via the exact relation Nc=1/2ncN_c={1/2} n_c established for the complex and real hypercubic models.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0111330,
  title  = {Critical behavior of certain antiferromagnets with complicated ordering: Four-loop $\ve$-expansion analysis},
  author = {Andrei Mudrov and Konstantin Varnashev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0111330},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

LaTeX, 16 pages, no figures. Expands on cond-mat/0109338 and includes detailed formulas