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Finite size scaling of the correlation length above the upper critical dimension

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2009-11-10 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We show numerically that correlation length at the critical point in the five-dimensional Ising model varies with system size L as L^{5/4}, rather than proportional to L as in standard finite size scaling (FSS) theory. Our results confirm a hypothesis that FSS expressions in dimension d greater than the upper critical dimension of 4 should have L replaced by L^{d/4} for cubic samples with periodic boundary conditions. We also investigate numerically the logarithmic corrections to FSS in d = 4.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0412150,
  title  = {Finite size scaling of the correlation length above the upper critical dimension},
  author = {Jeff L. Jones and A. P. Young},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0412150},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages, 6 postscript figures