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Three-loop renormalization group analysis of a complex model with stable fixed point: Critical exponents up to $\epsilon^3$ and $\epsilon^4$

Condensed Matter 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

The complete analysis of a model with three quartic coupling constants associated with an O(2N)--symmetric, a cubic, and a tetragonal interactions is carried out within the three-loop approximation of the renormalization-group (RG) approach in D=42ϵD=4-2\epsilon dimensions. Perturbation expansions for RG functions are calculated using dimensional regularization and the minimal subtraction (MS) scheme. It is shown that for N2N\ge 2 the model does possess a stable fixed point in three dimensional space of coupling constants, in accordance with predictions made earlier on the base of the lower-order approximations. Numerical estimate for critical (marginal) value of the order parameter dimensionality NcN_c is given using Pad\'e-Borel summation of the corresponding ϵ\epsilon--expansion series obtained. It is observed that two-fold degeneracy of the eigenvalue exponents in the one-loop approximation for the unique stable fixed point leads to the substantial decrease of the accuracy expected within three loops and may cause powers of ϵ\sqrt{\epsilon} to appear in the expansions. The critical exponents γ\gamma and η\eta are calculated for all fixed points up to ϵ3\epsilon^3 and ϵ4\epsilon^4, respectively, and processed by the Borel summation method modified with a conformal mapping. For the unique stable fixed point the magnetic susceptibility exponent γ\gamma for N=2 is found to differ in third order in ϵ\epsilon from that of an O(4)--symmetric point. Qualitative comparison of the results given by ϵ\epsilon--expansion, three-dimensional RG analysis, non-perturbative RG arguments, and experimental data is performed.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9712007,
  title  = {Three-loop renormalization group analysis of a complex model with stable fixed point: Critical exponents up to $\epsilon^3$ and $\epsilon^4$},
  author = {Andrei Mudrov and Konstantin Varnashev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9712007},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

30 pages, LaTeX, no figures. To be published in Phys. Rev. B, V.57, Jan. issue (1998)