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Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

A Second-Order Phase Transition as a Limit of the First-Order Phase Transitions –Coherent Anomalies and Critical Phenomena in the Potts Models–

Makoto Katori

Published Dec 15, 1988• 12 citations
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Abstract

A new scheme of the coherent-anomaly method (CAM) is proposed to study critical phenomena in the models for which a mean-field description gives spurious first-order phase transition. A canonical series of mean-field-type approximations are constructed so that the spurious discontinuity should vanish asymptotically as the approximate critical temperature approachs the true value. The true value of the critical exponents β and γ are related to the coherent-anomaly exponents defined among the classical approximations. The formulation is demonstrated in the two-dimensional q -state Potts models for q =3 and 4. The result shows that the present method enables us to estimate the critical exponents with high accuracy by using the date of the cluster-mean-field approximations.

DOI
10.1143/jpsj.57.4114

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