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Physical review. B, Condensed matter

Renormalization and phase transitions in Potts φ3 -field theory with quadratic and trilinear symmetry breaking

Márcia C. Barbosa, M. A. Gusmão, W. K. Theumann

Published Sep 1, 1986• 7 citations
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Abstract

Renormalized perturbation theory with generalized minimal subtraction is used as an appropriate renormalization-group procedure for the study of crossover behavior in the continuum version of the p-state Potts model with quadratic and trilinear symmetry breaking, within the representation of Priest and Lubensky, by means of a two-loop-order calculation in d=6-\ensuremath{\epsilon} dimensions. The boundary between first- and second-order phase transitions is studied for longitudinal and transverse ordering as a function of p. A fixed-point runaway for longitudinal ordering is consistent with a mean-field interpretation of a first-order transition for p>${p}^{\mathrm{*}}$, where ${p}^{\mathrm{*}}$\ensuremath{\lesssim}2 but not with a second-order transition for p${p}^{\mathrm{*}}$. Finite and stable fixed points are obtained for transverse ordering, one that follows by crossover from the symmetric fixed point for 2(13/3), in consistency with the usual mean-field interpretation of a second-order transition for 2p3.

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10.1103/physrevb.34.3165

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Renormalized perturbation theory with generalized minimal subtraction is used as an appropriate renormalization-group procedure for the study of crossover behavior in the continuum version of the p-state Potts model with quadratic and trilinear symmetry breaking, within the representation of Priest and Lubensky, by means of a two-loop-order calculation in d=6-\ensuremath{\epsilon} dimensions. The boundary between first- and second-order phase transitions is studied for longitudinal and transverse ordering as a function of p. A fixed-point runaway for longitudinal ordering is consistent with a mean-field interpretation of a first-order transition for p>p∗{p}^{\mathrm{*}}p∗, where p∗{p}^{\mathrm{*}}p∗\ensuremath{\lesssim}2 but not with a second-order transition for pp∗{p}^{\mathrm{*}}p∗. Finite and stable fixed points are obtained for transverse ordering, one that follows by crossover from the symmetric fixed point for 2(13/3), in consistency with the usual mean-field interpretation of a second-order transition for 2p3.
The effect of quadratic symmetry breaking (QSB) on two representations for the Potts vectors in a continuum-field model are studied to two-loop order in renormalized perturbation theory in $d=6\ensuremath{-}\ensuremath{\epsilon}$ dimensions, in extension of an earlier group-theoretical analysis by Wallace and Young. The explicit dependence of the crossover exponent $\ensuremath{\varphi}$ that corresponds to QSB that destroys the equivalence between pairs of Potts vectors is obtained as a function of ddd and nnn for the ppp-state model with p=n+1p=n+1p=n+1. It is shown that this exponent follows from the calculation of vertex functions in a representation due to Wallace and Young, whereas a second crossover exponent $\overline{\ensuremath{\varphi}}$, that can be identified with the critical exponent $\ensuremath{\beta}$, and which corresponds to QSB that favors a single Potts vector against the others, follows from a calculation using the representation of the Potts vectors due to Priest and Lubensky.
It is shown that a trilinear symmetry breaking which destroys the equivalence of the states in a continuum generalization of the ppp-state Potts model yields first-order phase transitions for all p>1p>1p>1, in contrast to the results of the symmetric theory where there is a second-order transition for p<2p<2p<2 and a first-order transition for p>2p>2p>2, in $d=6\ensuremath{-}\ensuremath{\epsilon}$ dimensions, and in spite of mean-field---theory predictions. A calculation in renormalized perturbation theory, to one-loop order, on a three-trilinear-coupling theory yields two new accessible and partly stable asymmetric fixed points beyond the symmetric one, except for the three-state Potts model, one for ${2.2}^{\ensuremath{-}}\ensuremath{\le}p<\ensuremath{\infty}$ and the other for 1<p<1331<p<\frac{13}{3}1<p<313​. There is a fixed-point runaway for the first one when $p<{2.2}^{\ensuremath{-}}$ and for the second when p>133p>\frac{13}{3}p>313​, which are interpreted as the usual first-order transitions. For the indicated ranges of ppp the transitions are of first order near a spinodal point, with uniaxial ordering in the first case and transverse ordering in the second. Critical exponents that could describe the approach to the spinodal points are explicitly calculated.
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The q-state Potts spin-glass (SG) with short-ranged random-exchange interaction is formulated field theoretically. The one-loop calculation [M.-c. Chang, Phys. Rev. B 28, 6592 (1983)] shows that the Potts SG transition is of first order when q\ensuremath{\ge}4 and for q=3 it is undetermined because the Potts SG fixed point is only marginally stable. The calculations are carried out to two-loop order with use of renormalized perturbation theory by means of minimal subtraction procedure. The results show that the three-state Potts SG fixed point is infrared stable, and we conclude that it is second-order transition. The critical exponents to order ${\ensuremath{\epsilon}}^{2}$ (\ensuremath{\epsilon}=6-d) are given.
The critical exponents for two ${\ensuremath{\varphi}}^{3}$-field theories with long-range (LR) interactions decaying as 1/${R}^{d+\ensuremath{\sigma}}$, \ensuremath{\sigma}>0, are calculated to two-loop order in renormalized perturbation theory in d=3\ensuremath{\sigma}-\ensuremath{\epsilon}' dimensions. One is the continuum version of the p-state Potts model and the other is the scalar field theory with imaginary coupling that describes the Yang-Lee edge-singularity problem. The two crossover exponents for quadratic symmetry breaking discussed by Wallace and Young and in recent work by the present authors are also calculated in the first case. By means of renormalization-group recursion relations to one-loop order, it is shown that the LR fixed point is stable for all \ensuremath{\sigma}2 whenever ${\ensuremath{\eta}}_{\mathrm{SR}}$, the critical correlation-function exponent for short-range (SR) interactions, is negative, implying a discontinuity of critical exponents at \ensuremath{\sigma}=2. This is the case for the (p2)-state Potts model and for the Yang-Lee edge-singularity problem, and is in agreement with recent results by Chang and Sak for the Ising spin-glass problem. For the (p>2)-state Potts model there is an indication of a continuous crossover to SR behavior at \ensuremath{\sigma}=2-${\ensuremath{\eta}}_{\mathrm{SR}}$, with ${\ensuremath{\eta}}_{\mathrm{SR}}$>0. It is pointed out that a number of exact results [\ensuremath{\beta}=(1-\ensuremath{\epsilon}'/2\ensuremath{\sigma})\ensuremath{\sigma}\ensuremath{\nu}, \ensuremath{\sigma}^=(d-\ensuremath{\sigma})/(d+\ensuremath{\sigma}), in which \ensuremath{\sigma}^ is the Yang-Lee edge-singularity exponent, and ${\ensuremath{\nu}}^{\mathrm{\ensuremath{-}}1}$=(d-\ensuremath{\sigma})/2 for a scalar theory] may apply within the LR expansion depending on \ensuremath{\eta}=2-\ensuremath{\sigma} (shown here to hold at least to two-loop order) being exact, to all orders.
A renormalization-group calculation has been carried out in $d=6\ensuremath{-}\ensuremath{\epsilon}$ dimensions to lowest order in $\ensuremath{\epsilon}$, using the continuum generalization of the Potts model. The equation of state and the various thermodynamic functions have been calculated explicitly by integrating up the recursion relations in both the ordered and disordered phases. The transition is found to be first order for p>2p>2p>2. For 2<p<1032<p<\frac{10}{3}2<p<310​ the transition is first order in spite of the fact that there is an accessible stable fixed point for all p<103p<\frac{10}{3}p<310​. At the first-order transition, instead of the usual expansion in temperature, the various thermodynamic functions are studied as functions of ($p\ensuremath{-}2$). Finally it is shown that the free energy of the Potts model has an essential singularity at the first-order transition temperature Tc{T}_{c}Tc​, due to instantons, which is of the same form as that of the Ising model at H=0H=0H=0.