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/S004057791702009XzbMATH Open1369.81090arXiv1512.05892MaRDI QIDQ2014447FDOQ2014447

Authors: H. W. Diehl, Sergei B. Rutkevich 

Publication date: 25 August 2017

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

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.

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

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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)

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