Boundary critical behaviour atm-axial Lifshitz points of semi-infinite systems with a surface plane perpendicular to a modulation axis

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/39/25/S09zbMATH Open1097.81047arXivcond-mat/0512681OpenAlexW2015146689MaRDI QIDQ5478372FDOQ5478372

Authors: H. W. Diehl, P. V. Prudnikov, M. A. Shpot 

Publication date: 13 July 2006

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

Abstract: Semi-infinite $d$-dimensional systems with an $m$-axial bulk Lifshitz point are considered whose ($d-1$)-dimensional surface hyper-plane is oriented perpendicular to one of the $m$ modulation axes. An $n$-component $ph{i}^4$ field theory describing the bulk and boundary critical behaviour when (i) the Hamiltonian can be taken to have O(n) symmetry and (ii) spatial anisotropies breaking its Euclidean symmetry in the $m$-dimensional coordinate subspace of potential modulation directions may be ignored is investigated. The long-distance behaviour at the ordinary surface transition is mapped onto a field theory with the boundary conditions that both the order parameter $$ and its normal derivative $$ vanish at the surface plane. The boundary-operator expansion is utilized to study the short-distance behaviour of $$ near the surface. Its leading contribution is found to be controlled by the boundary operator $$. The field theory is renormalized for dimensions $d$ below the upper critical dimension $d^{\ast }(m)=4+m/2$, with a corresponding surface source term $$ added. The anomalous dimension of this boundary operator is computed to first order in $epsilon=d^{\ast }-d$. The result is used in conjunction with scaling laws to estimate the value of the single independent surface critical exponent $$ for $d=3$. Our estimate for the case $m=n=1$ of a uniaxial Lifshitz point in Ising systems is in reasonable agreement with published Monte Carlo results.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0512681

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zbMATH Keywords

Ising systemLifshitz point

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Renormalization group methods in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B28) Continuum limits in quantum field theory (81T27)

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