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arXiv:2103.08695 · Nuclear Physics B

Boundary effects on finite-size scaling for the 5-dimensional Ising model

P. H. Lundow

Published Apr 28, 2021• 8 citations
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Abstract

High-dimensional (d≥5) Ising systems have mean-field critical exponents. However, at the critical temperature the finite-size scaling of the susceptibility χ depends on the boundary conditions. A system with periodic boundary conditions then has χ∝L5/2. Deleting the 5L4 boundary edges we receive a system with free boundary conditions and now χ∝L2. In the present work we find that deleting the L4 boundary edges along just one direction is enough to have the scaling χ∝L2. It also appears that deleting L3 boundary edges results in an intermediate scaling, here estimated to χ∝L2.275. We also study how the energy and magnetisation distributions change when deleting boundary edges.

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2021.115422

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Finite-size scaling functions are investigated both for the mean-square magnetization fluctuations and for the probability distribution of the magnetization in the one-dimensional Ising model. The scaling functions are evaluated in the limit of the temperature going to zero (T -> 0), the size of the system going to infinity (N -> oo) while N[1-tanh(J/k_BT)] is kept finite (J being the nearest neighbor coupling). Exact calculations using various boundary conditions (periodic, antiperiodic, free, block) demonstrate explicitly how the scaling functions depend on the boundary conditions. We also show that the block (small part of a large system) magnetization distribution results are identical to those obtained for free boundary conditions.
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