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A finite-size scaling theory for the $\phi^4_4$ model is derived using renormalization group methods. Particular attention is paid to the partition function zeroes, in terms of which all thermodynamic observables can be expressed. While the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 R. Kenna , C. B. Lang

We study the convergence and shape correction to the limit distributions of extreme values due to the finite size (FS) of data sets. A renormalization method is introduced for the case of independent, identically distributed (iid)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Gyorgyi , N. R. Moloney , K. Ozogany , Z. Racz

The study of Finite Size Effects in Quantum Field Theory allows the extraction of precious perturbative and non-perturbative information. The use of scaling functions can connect the particle content (scattering theory formulation) of a QFT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Francesco Ravanini

We investigate scaling phenomena at first-order quantum transitions, when the boundary conditions favor one of the two phases. We show that the corresponding finite-size scaling behavior, arising from the interplay between the driving…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-21 Andrea Pelissetto , Davide Rossini , Ettore Vicari

Finite size scaling for the Schr\"{o}dinger equation is a systematic approach to calculate the quantum critical parameters for a given Hamiltonian. This approach has been shown to give very accurate results for critical parameters by using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-16 Edwin Antillon , Birgit Wehefritz-Kaufmann , Sabre Kais

We carry out a numerical study of the bi-partite entanglement entropy in the gapped regime of two paradigmatic quantum spin chain models: the Ising chain in an external magnetic field and the anti-ferromagnetic XXZ model. The universal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-30 Emanuele Levi , Olalla A. Castro-Alvaredo , Benjamin Doyon

In the 1960's, four famous scaling relations were developed which relate the six standard critical exponents describing continuous phase transitions in the thermodynamic limit of statistical physics models. They are well understood at a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-16 Ralph Kenna , Bertrand Berche

We study the order-disorder transition in two-dimensional incompressible systems of motile particles with alignment interactions through extensive numerical simulations of the incompressible Toner-Tu (ITT) field theory and a detailed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-23 Wanming Qi , Lei-Han Tang , Hugues Chaté

We study the critical behavior of the Ising model in annealed scale-free (SF) networks of finite system size with forced upper cutoff in degree. By mapping the model onto the weighted fully connected Ising model, we derive analytic results…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-26 Sang Hoon Lee , Meesoon Ha , Hawoong Jeong , Jae Dong Noh , Hyunggyu Park

We investigate finite-size effects in quantum systems at first-order quantum transitions. For this purpose we consider the one-dimensional q-state Potts models which undergo a first-order quantum transition for any q>4, separating the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Massimo Campostrini , Jacopo Nespolo , Andrea Pelissetto , Ettore Vicari

The magnetic phase transition in a Heisenberg fluid is studied by means of the finite size scaling (FSS) technique. We find that even for larger systems, considered in an ensemble with fixed density, the critical exponents show deviations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. M. Mryglod , I. P. Omelyan , R. Folk

We study the effects of symmetry-breaking perturbations in the out-of-equilibrium quantum dynamics of many-body systems slowly driven across a continuous quantum transition (CQT) by a time-dependent symmetry-preserving parameter. For this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-12 Francesca De Franco , Ettore Vicari

Despite the unitary evolution of closed quantum systems, long-time expectation of local observables are well described by thermal ensembles, providing the foundation of quantum statistical mechanics. A promising route to understanding this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Yuke Zhang , Pengfei Zhang

We reexamine the range of validity of finite-size scaling in the $\phi^4$ lattice model and the $\phi^4$ field theory below four dimensions. We show that general renormalization-group arguments based on the renormalizability of the $\phi^4$…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 X. S. Chen , V. Dohm

The finite-size scaling theory for continuous phase transition plays an important role in determining critical point and critical exponents from the size-dependent behaviors of quantities in the thermodynamic limit. For percolation phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-10 Yong Zhu , Xiaosong Chen

Recently, Castellano and Pastor-Satorras [1] utilized the finite size scaling (FSS) theory to analyze simulation data for the contact process (CP) on scale-free networks (SFNs) and claimed that its absorbing critical behavior is not…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Meesoon Ha , Hyunsuk Hong , Hyunggyu Park

Finite size scaling for a first order phase transition where a continuous symmetry is broken is developed using an approximation of Gaussian probability distributions with a phenomenological "degeneracy" factor included. Predictions are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Jiahao Xu , Shan-Ho Tsai , D. P. Landau , K. Binder

Phase transition in its strict sense can only be observed in an infinite system, for which equilibration takes an infinitely long time at criticality. In numerical simulations, we are often limited both by the finiteness of the system size…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-30 Mi Jin Lee , Su Do Yi , Beom Jun Kim

Renormalization-group theory stands, since over 40 years, as one of the pillars of modern physics. As such, there should be no remaining doubt regarding its validity. However, finite-size scaling, which derives from it, has long been poorly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-03-23 E. J. Flores-Sola , B. Berche , R. Kenna , M. Weigel

We calculate universal finite-size scaling functions for systems with an n-component order parameter and algebraically decaying interactions. Just as previously has been found for short-range interactions, this leads to a singular…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Erik Luijten