Monte Carlo study of topological defects in the 3D Heisenberg model

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/27/7/030MaRDI QIDQ4861996zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christian Holm, Wolfhard Janke

Publication date 17 July 1996

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/9306020

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26)

Abstract: We use single-cluster Monte Carlo simulations to study the role of topological defects in the three-dimensional classical Heisenberg model on simple cubic lattices of size up to $80^3$. By applying reweighting techniques to time series generated in the vicinity of the approximate infinite volume transition point $K_c$, we obtain clear evidence that the temperature derivative of the average defect density $dlanglenangle/dT$ behaves qualitatively like the specific heat, i.e., both observables are finite in the infinite volume limit. This is in contrast to results by Lau and Dasgupta [{em Phys. Rev./} {�f B39} (1989) 7212] who extrapolated a divergent behavior of $dlanglenangle/dT$ at $K_c$ from simulations on lattices of size up to $16^3$. We obtain weak evidence that $dlanglenangle/dT$ scales with the same critical exponent as the specific heat.As a byproduct of our simulations, we obtain a very accurate estimate for the ratio $alpha/u$ of the specific-heat exponent with the correlation-length exponent from a finite-size scaling analysis of the energy.

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