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New universality class in three dimensions: The critical Blume-Capel model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-10-11 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We study the Blume-Capel universality class in d=103ϵd=\frac{10}{3}-\epsilon dimensions. The RG flow is extracted by looking at poles in fractional dimension of three loop diagrams using MS\overline{\rm MS}. The theory is the only nontrivial universality class which admits an expansion to three dimensions with ϵ=13<1\epsilon=\frac{1}{3}<1. We compute the relevant scaling exponents and estimate some of the OPE coefficients to the leading order. Our findings agree with and complement CFT results. Finally we discuss a family of nonunitary multicritical models which includes the Lee-Yang and Blume-Capel classes as special cases.

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@article{arxiv.1706.06887,
  title  = {New universality class in three dimensions: The critical Blume-Capel model},
  author = {Alessandro Codello and Mahmoud Safari and Gian Paolo Vacca and Omar Zanusso},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.06887},
  year   = {2017}
}

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5 pages, 1 figure, v2: new title, extended introduction, to appear in PRD

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