The boundary-induced scaling of three-dimensional random field Ising magnets is investigated close to the bulk critical point by exact combinatorial optimization methods. We measure several exponents describing surface criticality: ${\ensuremath{\beta}}_{1}$ for the surface layer magnetization and the surface excess exponents for the magnetization and the specific heat, ${\ensuremath{\beta}}_{s}$ and ${\ensuremath{\alpha}}_{s}$. The latter are related to the bulk phase transition by the same scaling laws as in pure systems, but only with the same violation of the hyperscaling exponent $\ensuremath{\theta}$ as in the bulk. The boundary disorders faster than the bulk, and the experimental and theoretical implications are discussed.
In this paper we report analyses of high temperature series expansions for the spin [Formula: see text] XY model on the triangular and square lattices. Quantities for which series are analyzed include the fluctuation in the transverse magnetization, fourth order fluctuations in the same quantity, second and fourth moments of the transverse spin–spin correlations, specific heat, and entropy. The evidence favours a phase transition at a finite temperature with conventional power law critical singularities. Scaling seems to hold but hyperscaling seems to be violated. Estimates for critical exponents include γ = 2.50 ± 0.3. Δ = 2.38 ± 0.2, and ν = 143 ± 0.10. The specific heat exhibits no singular behaviour at Tc.
Understanding optical conductivity data in the optimally doped cuprates in the framework of quantum criticality requires a strongly coupled quantum critical metal which violates hyperscaling. In the simplest scaling framework, hyperscaling violation can be characterized by a single nonzero exponent $\ensuremath{\theta}$, so that in a spatially isotropic state in
d spatial dimensions, the specific heat scales with temperature as ${T}^{(d\ensuremath{-}\ensuremath{\theta})/z}$, and the optical conductivity scales with frequency as ${\ensuremath{\omega}}^{(d\ensuremath{-}\ensuremath{\theta}\ensuremath{-}2)/z}$ for $\ensuremath{\omega}\ensuremath{\gg}T$, where
z is the dynamic critical exponent defined by the scaling of the fermion response function transverse to the Fermi surface. We study the Ising-nematic critical point, using the controlled dimensional regularization method proposed by Dalidovich and Lee [Phys. Rev. B 88, 245106 (2013)]. We find that hyperscaling is violated, with $\ensuremath{\theta}=1$ in
d=2. We expect that similar results apply to Fermi surfaces coupled to gauge fields in
d=2.