The three-dimensional O(n) ^4 model on a strip with free boundary conditions: exact results for a nontrivial dimensional crossover in the limit n

DOI10.1134/S004057791702009XMaRDI QIDQ2014447zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors H. W. Diehl, Sergei B. Rutkevich

Publication date 25 August 2017

Published in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.05892

zbMATH Keywords

inverse scattering problemCasimir effectfinite-size scalingdimensional crossoverfluctuation-induced force

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inverse scattering problems in quantum theory (81U40) Casimir effect in quantum field theory (81T55)

Abstract: Recent exact $noinfty$ results for critical Casimir forces of the $O(n)$ $ph{i}^4$ model on a three-dimensional strip bounded by two planar free surfaces at a distance $L$ are surveyed. This model has long-range order below the bulk critical temperature $T_c$ if $L=infty$, but remains disordered for all $T>0$ when $L<infty$. A proper analysis of its scaling behavior near $T_c$ is quite challenging: Besides with bulk, boundary, and finite-size critical behaviors, one must deal with a nontrivial dimensional crossover. The model can be solved exactly in the limit $noinfty$ in terms of the eigenvalues and eigenenergies of a selfconsistent Schr"odinger equation involving a potential $v(z)$ with the near-boundary singular behavior $v(zo0+)approx-1/(4z^2)+4m/(p{i}^{2}z)$, where $m=1/x{i}_{+}(|t|)$ is the inverse bulk correlation length and $tsim(T-T_c)/T_c$, and a corresponding singularity at the second boundary plane. The potential $v(z)$, the excess free energy, and the Casimir force have been determined numerically with high precision. Exact analytical results for a variety of properties such as series expansion coefficients of $v(z)$, the scattering data of $v(z)$ in the semi-infinite case $L=infty$ for all $mgtreqless0$, and the low-temperature asymptotic behavior of the residual free energy and the Casimir force can be obtained by a combination of boundary-operator and short-distance expansions, proper extensions of inverse scattering theory, new trace formulae, and semiclassical expansions.

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