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Low-Temperature Expansion for a First Order Surface Transition

Condensed Matter 2016-08-31 v1

Abstract

The question concerning the possibility of a first order surface transition in a semi--infinite Blume--Capel model is addressed by means of low temperature expansions. It is found that such a transition can exist, according to mean field and cluster variation approximations, and contrarily to renormalization group results.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9306012,
  title  = {Low-Temperature Expansion for a First Order Surface Transition},
  author = {C. Buzano and A. Pelizzola},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9306012},
  year   = {2016}
}

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9 pages (plain TeX) + 1 figure (PostScript, appended), POLFIS-TH.03/93