The two-dimensional simulations of Majumdar, Bray, Cornell, and Sire are confirmed and generalized to three to five dimensions. They agree with their epsilon expansion.
In three dimensions, or more generally, below the upper critical dimension, scaling laws for critical phenomena seem well understood, for both infinite and for finite systems. Above the upper critical dimension of four, finite-size scaling is more difficult. Chen and Dohm predicted deviation in the universality of the Binder cumulants for three dimensions and more for the Ising model. This deviation occurs if the critical point T = Tc is approached along lines of constant A = L*L*(T-Tc)/Tc, then different exponents a function of system size L are found depending on whether this constant A is taken as positive, zero, or negative. This effect was confirmed by Monte Carlo simulations with Glauber and Creutz kinetics. Because of the importance of this effect and the unclear situation in the analogous percolation problem, we here reexamine the five-dimensional Glauber kinetics.
A loop expansion around Parisi's replica symmetry breaking mean field theory is constructed, in zero field. We obtain the equation of state (and associated Parisi's solution) below the upper critical dimension du=6, and, in particular, explicit corrections in εlnt and (εlnt)2 with t=(Tc−T)/Tc and ε=6−d. This allows us to verify that standard scaling is satisfied with β=1+ε/2+0(ε2). We have also investigated the transverse (replicon) correlation function, particularly at zero overlap. Near du, G00 (p) ~ t/P4 (for p~0) is the most obvious obstacle to a meaningful theory in d=3. If we make the twofold assumption that (i) scaling applies, and (ii) the replicon propagator is dominated by the spectrum of the (small) transverse masses, we obtain the softer behavior G00(p) ~ (1/p2–η). (t/p1/v)β and a prediction for a soft replicon spectrum in tγk2γ/β γ/β instead of tk2 at du. We have checked tγ to one loop and work is in progress to check k2γ/β to the same order. Taking the above divergence in p−(d+2−η)/2 as the leading divergence defines the lower critical dimension d ℓ by d ℓ=2−η (d ℓ). Known values of η (at d=6, from the ε expansion at Tc, or from numerical work at d=4, 3) are compatible with d ℓ ~ 2.5±.3.