The interface tension of the three-dimensional Ising model in two-loop order

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Abstract: In liquid mixtures and other binary systems at low temperatures the pure phases may coexist, separated by an interface. The interface tension vanishes according to sigma=sigma0(1−T/Tc)mu as the temperature T approaches the critical point from below. Similarly the correlation length diverges as xi=f−(1−T/Tc)−u in the low temperature region. For three-dimensional systems the dimensionless product R−=sigma0f−2 is universal. We calculate its value in the framework of field theory in d=3 dimensions by means of a saddle-point expansion around the kink solution including two-loop corrections. The result R_ = 0.1065(9), where the error is mainly due to the uncertainty in the renormalized coupling constant, is compatible with experimental data and Monte Carlo calculations.











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