Scaling Function for Order-Parameter Correlations in Expansion to Order 1/N. 1. Short Range Interactions

W. K. Theumann

J.G. Brankov, Daniel M. Danchev

Finite-size scaling for the effective correlation length and the pair correlation function of the mean spherical model is studied in the case of general geometry Ld−d′×∞d′, periodic boundary conditions, and long-range interactions decaying like R−d−σ at large distances R, with arbitrary real parameters 0<σ≤2, σ≤d≤2σ, d′≥0. The analytical technique used is based on integral transformations with kernels of Mittag–Leffler type. It makes it possible to easily generalize a number of results available only for short-range interactions or in special cases of the Ld−d′×∞d′ geometry. The effective correlation length is identified at arbitrary temperatures from the finite-size large-distance asymptotic behavior of the pair correlation function. It is explicitly shown that the finite-size scaling functions are not singular in the ε-expansion when ε→0+ neither at d=σ+ε, nor at d=2σ−ε. Moreover, the applicability of the ε-expansion is tested in the specific finite-size case of d′=σ±ε. The definition of the scaled field variable and the finite-size scaling in the regime of the first-order phase transition are also considered.

W. K. Theumann

Zhibing Li, Y. Chen, Shuo-Hong Guo

The theoretic renormalization-group approach is applied to the study of short-time dynamics of the d-dimensional n-component spin systems with long-range interactions r-(d+σ) and quenched disorder which has long-range correlations r-(d-ρ). Asymptotic scaling laws are obtained in a frame of double expansions in ∊=2σ-d and ρ with ρ of the order ∊. The static exponents are obtained exactly to all the order. The initial slip exponents θ′ for the order parameter and θ for the response function, as well as the dynamic exponent z, are calculated upto the first order in ∊. In d=2σ, in contrast to the unique logarithmic decay in the long-time regime which does not depend on σ, ρ, n and the disorder, we find rich scaling structures including logarithmic and exponential-logarithmic scalings in the short-time regime. Non-universal critical scalings of Ising systems are also discussed for d=2σ.

Yuan Chen, Guo Shuohong, Zhibing Li

The theoretic renormalization group approach is applied to the study of short-time critical behavior of the Ginzburg–Landau model with weakly long-range interactions . The system initially at a high temperature is firstly quenched to the critical temperature and then released to an evolution with a model A dynamics. A double expansion in and with of order is employed, where is the spatial dimension. The asymptotic scaling laws and the initial slip exponents and for the order parameter and the response function respectively are calculated to the second order in for close to 2.

W. K. Theumann