Novel Lifshitz tricritical point and critical dynamics
Amnon Aharony A, Eytan Domany, Richard M. Hornreich +2 more
The d-dimensional time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau (TDGL) model is mapped onto a special (d+1)-dimensional model which exhibits a Lifshitz tricritical point (LTP). Many of the LTP critical properties follow from those of the TDGL model, and are shown to belong to a novel universality class of LTP's which results from a (previously ignored) relevant, nonlocal, quartic spin operator. These properties are analyzed with the use of scaling, an \ensuremath{\epsilon} expansion, and the n\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\infty} limit.
Physical review. B, Condensed matter•Sep 1, 1985•24 citations