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Critical thermodynamics of three-dimensional MN-component field model with cubic anisotropy from higher-loop RG expansions

Statistical Mechanics 2007-05-23 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The critical behavior of an MN-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 (42\ve)(4-2\ve)-dimensions. Using dimensional regularization and the minimal subtraction scheme, the perturbative expansions for RG functions are deduced for generic M and N and resummed by the Borel transformation combined with a conformal mapping. Investigation of the global structure of RG flows for the physically significant cases M=2 and N=2, N=3 shows that the model has a three-dimensionally stable fixed point different from the Bose one. The critical dimensionality is proved to be exactly two times smaller than its counterpart in the real cubic model: N_c^C ={1/2} N_c^R. The numerical value NcC=1.447±0.020N_c^C=1.447 \pm 0.020 is obtained from resumming the known five-loop \ve\ve-series for N_c^R. Since N_c^C < 2, the critical thermodynamics of the model relevant to the phase transitions in real substances should be governed by the complex cubic fixed point with a new set of critical exponents: \gm=1.404(25)\gm=1.404(25), ν=0.715(10)\nu=0.715(10), \et=0.0343(20)\et=0.0343(20) for N=2 and \gm=1.390(25)\gm=1.390(25), ν=0.702(10)\nu=0.702(10), \et=0.0345(15)\et=0.0345(15) for N=3.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0011167,
  title  = {Critical thermodynamics of three-dimensional MN-component field model with cubic anisotropy from higher-loop RG expansions},
  author = {A. I. Mudrov and K. B. Varnashev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0011167},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

6 pages, LaTeX, no figures. Talk presented at XXIII-rd Intern. Coll. "Group Theoretical Methods in Physics (Group-23)" (31 July - 5 August, JINR, Dubna, Russia, 2000). To be published in the Coll. Proceedings, JINR RAS, Dubna, 2001; insignificant misprints corrected, references and acknowledgment added