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Surface critical behavior of semi-infinite systems with cubic anisotropy at the ordinary transition

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-11-10 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

The critical behavior at the ordinary transition in semi-infinite n-component anisotropic cubic models is investigated by applying the field theoretic approach in d=3 dimensions up to the two-loop approximation. Numerical estimates of the resulting two-loop series expansions for the critical exponents of the ordinary transition are computed by means of Pade resummation techniques. For n<ncn<n_{c} the system belongs to the universality class of the isotropic n-component model, while for n>ncn>n_{c} the cubic fixed point becomes stable, where nc<3n_{c}<3 is the marginal spin dimensionality of the cubic model. The obtained results indicate that the surface critical behavior of the semi-infinite systems with cubic anisotropy is characterized by a new set of surface critical exponents for n>ncn>n_{c}.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0312320,
  title  = {Surface critical behavior of semi-infinite systems with cubic anisotropy at the ordinary transition},
  author = {Z. Usatenko and J. Spalek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0312320},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 pages