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The antiferromagnetic phi4 Model, I. The Mean-field Solution

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-30 v2 Condensed Matter High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

Certain higher dimensional operators of the lagrangian may render the vacuum inhomogeneous. A rather rich phase structure of the phi4 scalar model in four dimensions is presented by means of the mean-field approximation. One finds para- ferro- ferri- and antiferromagnetic phases and commensurate-incommensurate transitions. There are several particles described by the same quantum field in a manner similar to the species doubling of the lattice fermions. It is pointed out that chiral bosons can be introduced in the lattice regularized theory.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9612110,
  title  = {The antiferromagnetic phi4 Model, I. The Mean-field Solution},
  author = {V. Branchina and H. Mohrbach and J. Polonyi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9612110},
  year   = {2009}
}

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To appear in Phys. Rev. D

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