Non-perturbative corrections to mean-field critical behavior: the spherical model on a spider-web graph

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Abstract: We consider the spherical model on a spider-web graph. This graph is effectively infinite-dimensional, similar to the Bethe lattice, but has loops. We show that these lead to non-trivial corrections to the simple mean-field behavior. We first determine all normal modes of the coupled springs problem on this graph, using its large symmetry group. In the thermodynamic limit, the spectrum is a set of delta-functions, and all the modes are localized. The fractional number of modes with frequency less than omega varies as exp(C/omega) for omega tending to zero, where C is a constant. For an unbiased random walk on the vertices of this graph, this implies that the probability of return to the origin at time t varies as exp(Ct1/3), for large t, where C is a constant. For the spherical model, we show that while the critical exponents take the values expected from the mean-field theory, the free-energy per site at temperature T, near and above the critical temperature Tc, also has an essential singularity of the type exp[K(TTc)1/2].









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