Surface critical behaviour at m-axial Lifshitz points: continuum models, boundary conditions and two-loop renormalization group results

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/36/46/C01zbMATH Open1046.81532arXivcond-mat/0303148OpenAlexW3102525915MaRDI QIDQ4465327FDOQ4465327

Sergei B. Rutkevich, A. Gerwinski, H. W. Diehl

Publication date: 27 May 2004

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The critical behaviour of semi-infinite $d$-dimensional systems with short-range interactions and an O(n) invariant Hamiltonian is investigated at an $m$-axial Lifshitz point with an isotropic wave-vector instability in an $m$-dimensional subspace of $mathbb{R}^d$ parallel to the surface. Continuum $$ models representing the associated universality classes of surface critical behaviour are constructed. In the boundary parts of their Hamiltonians quadratic derivative terms (involving a dimensionless coupling constant $lambda$) must be included in addition to the familiar ones $proptoph{i}^2$. Beyond one-loop order the infrared-stable fixed points describing the ordinary, special and extraordinary transitions in $d=4+fracm2-epsilon$ dimensions (with $epsilon>0$) are located at $lambda=lambd{a}^{*}=Or(epsilon)$. At second order in $epsilon$, the surface critical exponents of both the ordinary and the special transitions start to deviate from their $m=0$ analogues. Results to order $epsilo{n}^2$ are presented for the surface critical exponent $$ of the ordinary transition. The scaling dimension of the surface energy density is shown to be given exactly by $d+m(heta-1)$, where $heta=u_{l4}/u_{l2}$ is the bulk anisotropy exponent.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0303148

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17)

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