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The linear-$\sigma$ model has been widely used to describe the chiral phase transition. Numerically, the critical temperature $T_{c}$ of the chiral phase transition is in agreement with other effective theories of QCD. However, in the…
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We study the $\lambda\phi^4$ model in $0+2$ dimensions at criticality, and effectuate a simultaneous scaling of UV and IR physics. We demonstrate that the order parameter $\phi$, the correlation length $\xi$ and quantities like $\phi^3$ and…
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We study the finite size scaling behaviour of the specific heat of thin films in the neighbourhood of the lambda-transition. To this end we have simulated the improved two-component phi^4 model on the simple cubic lattice. We employ free…
We study the critical fluctuations near the resistive transition of very thin films of high-temperature cuprate superconductors composed of a number $N$ of only a few unit cells of superconducting bilayers. For that, we solve the…
The critical behavior of an MN-component order parameter Ginzburg-Landau model with isotropic and cubic interactions describing antiferromagnetic and structural phase transitions in certain crystals with complicated ordering is studied in…
Based on recent studies of the temperature dependence of the energy and specific heat of liquid nuclear matter, a phase transition is suggested at a temperature $\sim .8$ MeV. We apply Landau Ginzburg theory to this transition and determine…
We consider the phase structure of a pure compact U(1) gauge theory in four dimensions at finite temperature by treating this system as a perturbative deformation of the topological model. Phases of a gauge theory can be investigated from…
We study analytically the phase diagram of the pure $SU(N)$ lattice gauge theory at finite temperature, and we attempt to estimate the critical deconfinement temperature. We apply large $N$ techniques to the Wilson and to the Heat Kernel…
Recent experimental and numerical studies of the critical-temperature exponent $\phi$ for the superfluid-Bose glass universality in three-dimensional systems report strong violations of the key quantum critical relation, $\phi=\nu z$, where…
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The critical behavior of the Widom-Rowlinson mixture [J. Chem. Phys. 52, 1670 (1970)] is studied in d=3 dimensions by means of grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations. The finite size scaling approach of Kim, Fisher, and Luijten [Phys. Rev.…