Surface-induced finite-size effects for first-order phase transitions.

DOI10.1007/BF02179383MaRDI QIDQ1593225zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Christian Borgs, Roman Kotecký

Publication date 16 January 2001

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9501074

zbMATH Keywords

finite-size scalingfirst-order phase transitionsfree boundary conditionssurface effects

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27)

Abstract: We consider classical lattice models describing first-order phase transitions, and study the finite-size scaling of the magnetization and susceptibility. In order to model the effects of an actual surface in systems like small magnetic clusters, we consider models with free boundary conditions. For a field driven transition with two coexisting phases at the infinite volume transition point $h=h_t$, we prove that the low temperature finite volume magnetization $m_{free}(L,h)$ per site in a cubic volume of size $L^d$ behaves like $$, where $h_{c}hi(L)$ is the position of the maximum of the (finite volume) susceptibility and $m_{p}m$ are the infinite volume magnetizations at $h=h_t+0$ and $h=h_t-0$, respectively. We show that $h_{c}hi(L)$ is shifted by an amount proportional to $1/L$ with respect to the infinite volume transitions point $h_t$ provided the surface free energies of the two phases at the transition point are different. This should be compared with the shift for periodic boun- dary conditons, which for an asymmetric transition with two coexisting phases is proportional only to $1/L^{2d}$. One also consider the position $h_U(L)$ of the maximum of the so called Binder cummulant $U_{f}ree(L,h)$. While it is again shifted by an amount proportional to $1/L$ with respect to the infinite volume transition point $h_t$, its shift with respect to $h_{c}hi(L)$ is of the much smaller order $1/L^{2d}$. We give explicit formulas for the proportionality factors, and show that, in the leading $1/L^{2d}$ term, the relative shift is the same as that for periodic boundary conditions.

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