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Sharp phase transition in the grand canonical $\Phi^3$ measure at critical chemical potential

Probability 2025-08-13 v1 Mathematical Physics Analysis of PDEs math.MP

Abstract

We study the phase transition and critical phenomenon for the grand canonical Φ3\Phi^3 measure in two-dimensional Euclidean quantum field theory. The study of this measure was initiated by Jaffe, Bourgain, and Carlen--Fr\"ohlich--Lebowitz, primarily in regimes far from criticality. We identify a critical chemical potential and show that the measure exhibits a sharp phase transition at this critical threshold. At the critical threshold, the analysis is based on establishing the correlation decay of the Gaussian fluctuations in the partition function, combined with a coarse-graining argument to show divergence of the maximum of an approximating Gaussian process.

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@article{arxiv.2508.08427,
  title  = {Sharp phase transition in the grand canonical $\Phi^3$ measure at critical chemical potential},
  author = {Nikolay Barashkov and Kihoon Seong and Philippe Sosoe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.08427},
  year   = {2025}
}

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35 pages