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The normal-to-planar superfluid transition in Helium 3

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

Abstract

We study the nature of the Helium-3 superfluid transition from the normal to the planar phase, which is expected to be stabilized by the dipolar interactions. We determine the RG flow of the corresponding Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson theory by exploiting two fixed-dimension perturbative schemes: the massive zero-momentum scheme and the minimal-subtraction scheme without ϵ\epsilon expansion. The analysis of the corresponding six-loop and five-loop series shows the presence of a stable fixed point in the relevant coupling region. Therefore, we predict the transition to be continuous. We also compute critical exponents. The specific-heat exponent α\alpha is estimated as α=0.20(15)\alpha = 0.20(15), while the magnetic susceptibility and magnetization exponents γH\gamma_H and βH\beta_H for Helium 3 are γH=0.34(5)\gamma_H = -0.34(5), βH=1.07(9)\beta_H = 1.07(9).

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0312362,
  title  = {The normal-to-planar superfluid transition in Helium 3},
  author = {Martino De Prato and Andrea Pelissetto and Ettore Vicari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0312362},
  year   = {2009}
}

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19 pages, 4 figs