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High to low temperature: $O(N)$ model at large $N$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-11-13 v3 Statistical Mechanics Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We study the O(N)O(N) vector model for scalars with quartic interaction at large NN on S1×S2S^1\times S^2 without the singlet constraint. The non-trivial fixed point of the model is described by a thermal mass satisfying the gap equation at large NN. We obtain the free energy and the energy density for the model as a series at low temperature in units of the radius of the sphere. We show these results agree with the Borel-Pad\'{e} extrapolations of the high temperature expansions of the free energy and energy density obtained in our previous work. This agreement validates both the expansions and demonstrates that low temperature expansions obtained here correspond to the same solution of the gap equation studied earlier at high temperature. We obtain the ratio of the free energy of the theory at the non-trivial fixed point to that of the Gaussian theory at all values of temperature. This ratio begins at 4/54/5 when the temperature is infinity, decreases to a minimum value of 0.7607530.760753, then increases and approaches unity as the temperature is decreased.

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@article{arxiv.2508.14872,
  title  = {High to low temperature: $O(N)$ model at large $N$},
  author = {Justin R. David and Srijan Kumar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.14872},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

50 pages, 12 figures, 1 table, the low temperature expansions with higher orders provided in the ancillary file, typos corrected, Appendix C, fig 12, table 1 added, more detailed explanations added in many places

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