English

Specific heat amplitude ratios for anisotropic Lifshitz critical behaviors

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-10 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We determine the specific heat amplitude ratio near a mm-axial Lifshitz point and show its universal character. Using a recent renormalization group picture along with new field-theoretical ϵL\epsilon_{L}-expansion techniques, we established this amplitude ratio at one-loop order. We estimate the numerical value of this amplitude ratio for m=1m=1 and d=3d=3. The result is in very good agreement with its experimental measurement on the magnetic material MnPMnP. It is shown that in the limit m0m \to 0 it trivially reduces to the Ising-like amplitude ratio.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0304088,
  title  = {Specific heat amplitude ratios for anisotropic Lifshitz critical behaviors},
  author = {Marcelo M. Leite},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0304088},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

8 pages, RevTex, accepted as a Brief Report in Physical Review B