Boundary critical behaviour atm-axial Lifshitz points: the special transition for the case of a surface plane parallel to the modulation axes

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/37/36/001MaRDI QIDQ4654375zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors H. W. Diehl, Sergei B. Rutkevich

Publication date 4 March 2005

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0406216

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27)

Abstract: The critical behaviour of $d$-dimensional semi-infinite systems with $n$-component order parameter $$ is studied at an $m$-axial bulk Lifshitz point whose wave-vector instability is isotropic in an $m$-dimensional subspace of $mathbb{R}^d$. Field-theoretic renormalization group methods are utilised to examine the special surface transition in the case where the $m$ potential modulation axes, with $0leqmleqd-1$, are parallel to the surface. The resulting scaling laws for the surface critical indices are given. The surface critical exponent $et{a}_{|}^{msp}$, the surface crossover exponent $Phi$ and related ones are determined to first order in $epsilon=4+casem2-d$. Unlike the bulk critical exponents and the surface critical exponents of the ordinary transition, $Phi$ is $m$-dependent already at first order in $epsilon$. The $Or(epsilon)$ term of $et{a}_{|}^{msp}$ is found to vanish, which implies that the difference of $$ and the bulk exponent $$ is of order $epsilo{n}^2$.

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