Asymptotic behavior of the magnetization near critical and tricritical points via Ginzburg-Landau polynomials

DOI10.1007/S10955-008-9606-ZzbMATH Open1152.82027arXiv0803.0178OpenAlexW3098490794MaRDI QIDQ960165FDOQ960165

Authors: Richard S. Ellis, J. Machta, Peter T. Otto 

Publication date: 16 December 2008

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For the mean-field version of an important lattice-spin model due to Blume and Capel, we prove unexpected connections among the asymptotic behavior of the magnetization, the structure of the phase transitions, and a class of polynomials that we call the Ginzburg-Landau polynomials. The model depends on the parameters n, beta, and K, which represent, respectively, the number of spins, the inverse temperature, and the interaction strength. Our main focus is on the asymptotic behavior of the magnetization m(beta_n,K_n) for appropriate sequences (beta_n,K_n) that converge to a second-order point or to the tricritical point of the model and that lie inside various subsets of the phase-coexistence region. The main result states that as (beta_n,K_n) converges to one of these points (beta,K), m(beta_n,K_n) ~ c |beta - beta_n|^gamma --> 0. In this formula gamma is a positive constant, and c is the unique positive, global minimum point of a certain polynomial g that we call the Ginzburg-Landau polynomial. This polynomial arises as a limit of appropriately scaled free-energy functionals, the global minimum points of which define the phase-transition structure of the model. For each sequence (beta_n,K_n) under study, the structure of the global minimum points of the associated Ginzburg-Landau polynomial mirrors the structure of the global minimum points of the free-energy functional in the region through which (beta_n,K_n) passes and thus reflects the phase-transition structure of the model in that region. The properties of the Ginzburg-Landau polynomials make rigorous the predictions of the Ginzburg-Landau phenomenology of critical phenomena, and the asymptotic formula for m(beta_n,K_n) makes rigorous the heuristic scaling theory of the tricritical point.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0803.0178

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zbMATH Keywords

Blume-Capel modelfirst-order phase transitionscaling theorysecond-order phase transitiontricritical pointGinzburg-Landau phenomenology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27) Statistical mechanics of magnetic materials (82D40)

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