Critical Casimir amplitudes for n-component ^4 models with O(n)-symmetry breaking quadratic boundary terms

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2009.07.010MaRDI QIDQ1960119zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors H. W. Diehl, Daniel Grüneberg

Publication date 12 October 2010

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.3113

zbMATH Keywords

Casimir effectdimensionality expansionfluctuation-induced forcesmagnetic anisotropymulticritical behaviorrenormalized field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Casimir effect in quantum field theory (81T55) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27) Statistical mechanics of magnetic materials (82D40)

Abstract: Euclidean $n$-component $ph{i}^4$ theories whose Hamiltonians are O(n) symmetric except for quadratic symmetry breaking boundary terms are studied in films of thickness $L$. The boundary terms imply the Robin boundary conditions $partia{l}_{n}ph{i}_{a}lpha=mathring{c}_a^{(j)}lphaph{i}_{a}lpha$ at the boundary planes $mathfrak{B}_{j=1,2}$ at $z=0$ and $z=L$. Particular attention is paid to the cases in which $m_j$ of the $n$ variables $mathring{c}_a^{(j)}lpha$ take the special value $mathring{c}_{m_{j}ext-sp}$ corresponding to critical enhancement while the remaining ones are subcritically enhanced. Under these conditions, the semi-infinite system bounded by $mathfrak{B}_j$ has a multicritical point, called $m_j$-special, at which an $O(m_j)$ symmetric critical surface phase coexists with the O(n) symmetric bulk phase, provided $d$ is sufficiently large. The $L$-dependent part of the reduced free energy per area behaves as $Delt{a}_C/L^{d-1}$ as $Loinfty$ at the bulk critical point. The Casimir amplitudes $Delt{a}_C$ are determined for small $epsilon=4-d$ in the general case where $m_{c,c}$ components $ph{i}_{a}lpha$ are critically enhanced at both boundary planes, $m_{c,D}+m_{D,c}$ components are enhanced at one plane but satisfy asymptotic Dirichlet boundary conditions at the respective other, and the remaining $m_{D,D}$ components satisfy asymptotic Dirichlet boundary conditions at both $mathfrak{B}_j$. Whenever $m_{c,c}>0$, these expansions involve integer and fractional powers $epsilo{n}^{k/2}$ with $kge3$ (mod logarithms). Results to $O(epsilo{n}^{3/2})$ for general values of $m_{c,c}$, $m_{c,D}+m_{D,c}$, and $m_{D,D}$ are used to estimate the $Delt{a}_C$ of 3D Heisenberg systems with surface spin anisotropies when $(m_{c,c},m_{c,D}+m_{D,c})=(1,0)$, $(0,1)$, and $(1,1)$.

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