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Global fixed point potential approach to frustrated antiferromagnets

Statistical Mechanics 2025-01-09 v3

Abstract

We revisit the critical behavior of classical frustrated systems using the nonperturbative renormalization group (NPRG) equation. Our study is performed within the local potential approximation of this equation to which is added the flow of the field renormalization. Our flow equations are functional to avoid possible artifacts coming from the field expansion of the fixed point potential which consists in keeping only a limited number of coupling constants. We explain in detail our numerical implementation, its advantages and the difficulties encountered in the vicinity of d=2d=2. For NN-component spins, the function Nc(d)N_c(d) separating the regions of first and second order transitions in the (d,N)(d,N) plane is computed for dd between 4 and 2.3. Our results confirm what was previously found with cruder approximations of the NPRG equation and contradict both the fixed dimension perturbative approach and some of the results obtained within the conformal bootstrap approach.

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@article{arxiv.2409.17897,
  title  = {Global fixed point potential approach to frustrated antiferromagnets},
  author = {Shunsuke Yabunaka and Bertrand Delamotte},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.17897},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

27 pages, 6 figures. With revision. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1604.01916

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