Ising Field Theory in a Magnetic Field: Analytic Properties of the Free Energy

We study the analytic properties of the scaling function associated with the 2D Ising model free energy in the critical domain TT _c , H0. The analysis is based on numerical data obtained through the Truncated Free Fermion Space Approach. We determine the discontinuities across the Yang–Lee and Langer branch cuts. We confirm the standard analyticity assumptions and propose extended analyticity; roughly speaking, the latter states that the Yang–Lee branching point is the nearest singularity under Langer's branch cut. We support the extended analyticity by evaluating numerically the associated extended dispersion relation.     

Random Versus Deterministic Exponents in a Rich Family of Diffeomorphisms

We study, both numerically and theoretically, the relationship between the random Lyapunov exponent of a family of area preserving diffeomorphisms of the 2-sphere and the mean of the Lyapunov exponents of the individual members. The motivation for this study is the hope that a rich enough family of diffeomorphisms will always have members with positive Lyapunov exponents, that is to say, positive entropy. At question is what sort of notion of richness would make such a conclusion valid. One type of richness of a family—invariance under the left action of SO(n+1)—occurs naturally in the context of volume preserving diffeomorphisms of the n-sphere. Based on some positive results for families linear maps obtained by Dedieu and Shub, we investigate the exponents of such a family on the 2-sphere. Again motivated by the linear case, we investigate whether there is in fact a lower bound for the mean of the Lyapunov exponents in terms of the random exponents (with respect to the push-forward of Haar measure on SO(3)) in such a family. The family that we study contains a twist map with stretching parameter . In the family , we find strong numerical evidence for the existence of such a lower bound on mean Lyapunov exponents, when the values of the stretching parameter are not too small. Even moderate values of like 10 are enough to have an average of the metric entropy larger than that of the random map. For small the estimated average entropy seems positive but is definitely much less than the one of the random map. The numerical evidence is in favor of the existence of exponentially small lower and upper bounds (in the present example, with an analytic family). Finally, the effect of a small randomization of fixed size of the individual elements of the family is considered. Now the mean of the local random exponents of the family is indeed asymptotic to the random exponent of the entire family as tends to infinity.     

Computer simulation of driven diffusive systems with exchanges

The field-driven Kawasaki model with a fractionp admixture of Glauber dynamics is studied by computer simulation:p=0 corresponds to the order-parameter-onserving driven diffusive system, whilep=1 is the equilibrium Ising model. Forp=0.1 our best estimates of critical exponents based on a system of size 4096×128 are0.22, ^RS0.45, andv v 1. These exponents differ from both the values predicted by a field-theoretic method forp=0 and those of the equilibrium Ising model. Anisotropic finite-size scaling analyses are carried out, both for subsystems of the large system and for fully periodic systems. The results of the latter, however, are inconsistent, probably due to the complexity of the size effects. This leaves open the possibility that we are in a crossover regime fromp=0 top0 and that our critical exponents are effective ones. Forp=0 our results are consistent with the predictionsv >v .     

Mean-Field Theory for Percolation Models of the Ising Type

The q=2 random cluster model is studied in the context of two mean-field models: the Bethe lattice and the complete graph. For these systems, the critical exponents that are defined in terms of finite clusters have some anomalous values as the critical point is approached from the high-density side, which vindicates the results of earlier studies. In particular, the exponent ~ which characterizes the divergence of the average size of finite clusters is 1/2, and ~, the exponent associated with the length scale of finite clusters, is 1/4. The full collection of exponents indicates an upper critical dimension of 6. The standard mean field exponents of the Ising system are also present in this model (=1/2, =1), which implies, in particular, the presence of two diverging length-scales. Furthermore, the finite cluster exponents are stable to the addition of disorder, which, near the upper critical dimension, may have interesting implications concerning the generality of the disordered system/correlation length bounds.     

The number and size of branched polymers in high dimensions

We consider two models of branched polymers (lattice trees) on thed-dimensional hypercubic lattice: (i)the nearest-neighbor model in sufficiently high dimensions, and (ii) a spread-out or long-range model ford>8, in which trees are constructed from bonds of length less than or equal to a large parameterL. We prove that for either model the critical exponent for the number of branched polymers exists and equals 5/2, and that the critical exponentv for the radius of gyration exists and equals 1/4. This improves our earlier results for the corresponding generating functions. The proof uses the lace expansion, together with an analysis involving fractional derivatives which has been applied previously to the self-avoiding walk in a similar context.     

Dimensional crossover in the large-N limit

We consider dimensional crossover for anO(N) Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson model on ad-dimensional film geometry of thicknessL in the large-N limit. We calculate the full universal crossover scaling forms for the free energy and the equation of state. We compare the results obtained using environmentally friendly renormalization with those found using a direct, non-renormalization-group approach. A set of effective critical exponents are calculated and scaling laws for these exponents are shown to hold exactly, thereby yielding nontrivial relations between the various thermodynamic scaling functions.     

Influence of saturable absorber on critical phenomenon analogies in single mode laser driven by external coherent field

The influence of the existence of absorbing atoms in a laser cavity on the critical exponents of abrupt transitions between steady states in the system of single mode onephoton laser driven by an external coherent field is discussed. An isolated threshold when ,and a kind of threshold when, where is the pump parameter of the absorbing atoms, is obtained. The asymptotic forms of the families of potential functions for the system near these threshold are also found. The well-known scaling hypothesis in the general homogeneous function form is shown to be a characteristic of these asymptotic families. Four threshold exponents, , , and and four threshold amplitudes,B, D, andA, near each of these thresholds, are obtained. The threshold exponents near each threshold obey the scaling laws of critical phenomena, while the corresponding amplitudes obey the definite relations between exponents and amplitudes.     

Simulation calculation of dielectric constants: Comparison of methods on an exactly solvable model

A mean spherical model of classical dipoles on a simple cubic lattice of sideM=2N+1 sites is considered. Exact results are obtained for finite systems using periodic boundary conditions with an external dielectric constant and using reaction field boundary conditions with a cutoff radiusR _c N and an external dielectric constant. The dielectric constant in the disordered phase is calculated using a variety of fluctuation formulas commonly implemented in Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations of dipolar systems. The coupling in the system is measured by the parametery=4 ²/9kT, where ² is the fixed mean square value of the dipole moments on the lattice. The system undergoes a phase transition aty2.8, so that very high dielectric constants cannot be obtained in the disordered phase. The results show clearly the effects of system size, cutoff radius, external dielectric constant, and different measuring techniques on a dielectric constant estimate. It is concluded that with periodic boundary conditions, the rate of approach of the dielectric constant estimate to its thermodynamic limit is asN ^–2/3 and depends only weakly on. Methods of implementing reaction field boundary conditions to give rapid convergence to the thermodynamic limit are discussed.     

Statistical mechanics of polymer networks of any topology

The statistical mechanics is considered of any polymer network with a prescribed topology, in dimensiond, which was introduced previously. The basic direct renormalization theory of the associated continuum model is established. It has a very simple multiplicative structure in terms of the partition functions of the star polymers constituting the vertices of the network. A calculation is made toO(²), whered=4–, of the basic critical dimensions _L associated with anyL-leg vertex (L1). From this infinite series of critical exponents, any topology-dependent critical exponent can be derived. This is applied to the configuration exponent _G of any networkG toO(²), includingL-leg star polymers. The infinite sets of contact critical exponents between multiple points of polymers or between the cores of several star polymers are also deduced. As a particular case, the three exponents ₀, ₁, ₂ calculated by des Cloizeaux by field-theoretic methods are recovered. The limiting exact logarithmic laws are derived at the upper critical dimensiond=4. The results are generalized to the series of topological exponents of polymer networks near a surface and of tricritical polymers at the-point. Intersection properties of networks of random walks can be studied similarly. The above factorization theory of the partition function of any polymer network over its constitutingL-vertices also applies to two dimensions, where it can be related to conformal invariance. The basic critical exponents _L and thus any topological polymer exponents are then exactly known. Principal results published elsewhere are recalled.     

Semi-infinite Potts model and percolation at surfaces

The effects of surfaces on percolation are investigated near the bulk percolation threshold ind=6– dimensions. Using field-theoretic methods, this is done within the framework of a semi-infinite continuousq-state Potts model withq1. Renormalization-group equations are obtained which imply that the usual scaling laws for surface and bulk exponents are valid to all orders in , and the surface exponents at the ordinary and special transition are computed to order . Our result for ₁ ^ord is in conformity with the one by Carton.     

Critical behaviour of directed branched polymers and the dynamics at the Yang-Lee edge singularity

Relying on a field theoretic model due to Day and Lubensky we establish the one-to-one correspondence of the directed branched polymer problem ind dimensions to (relaxational) critical dynamics at the Yang-Lee edge ind–1 spatial dimensions; like their isotropic counterparts the directed polymer exponents andv are uniquely determined by the static Yang-Lee exponent whereasv requires in addition the dynamic Yang-Lee exponentz. JoiningO(²)-expansions about the upper critical dimensiond _c =7 to exact results atd=1 and 2 by Padé-interpolations we obtain good agreement with series expansion data for low dimensions.     

Scaling Limit and Critical Exponents for Two-Dimensional Bootstrap Percolation

Consider a cellular automaton with state space {0,1} ² where the initial configuration _0 is chosen according to a Bernoulli product measure, 1s are stable, and 0s become 1s if they are surrounded by at least three neighboring 1s. In this paper we show that the configuration _n at time n converges exponentially fast to a final configuration , and that the limiting measure corresponding to is in the universality class of Bernoulli (independent) percolation. More precisely, assuming the existence of the critical exponents , , and , and of the continuum scaling limit of crossing probabilities for independent site percolation on the close-packed version of ² (i.e. for independent *-percolation on ), we prove that the bootstrapped percolation model has the same scaling limit and critical exponents.This type of bootstrap percolation can be seen as a paradigm for a class of cellular automata whose evolution is given, at each time step, by a monotonic and nonessential enhancement [Aizenman and Grimmett, J. Stat. Phys. 63: 817--835 (1991); Grimmett, Percolation, 2nd Ed. (Springer, Berlin, 1999)     

Directed paths on percolation clusters

We consider a variant of the problem of directed polymers on a disordered lattice, in which the disorder is geometrical in nature. In particular, we allow a finite probability for each bond to be absent from the lattice. We show, through the use of numerical and scaling arguments on both Euclidean and hierarchical lattices, that the model has two distinct scaling behaviors, depending upon whether the concentration of bonds on the lattice is at or above the directed percolation threshold. We are particularly interested in the exponents and, defined by ft and xt , describing the free-energy and transverse fluctuations, respectively. Above the percolation threshold, the scaling behavior is governed by the standard random energy exponents (=1/3 and =2/3 in 1+1 dimensions). At the percolation threshold, we predict (and verify numerically in 1+1 dimensions) the exponents=1/2 and =v/v, where v and v are the directed percolation exponents. In addition, we predict the absence of a free phase in any dimension at the percolation threshold.     

Structure of σ model in [1, 1] representation of SU(2) ⊗ SU(2) group

The spontaneous breakdown of symmetry of the-model in the [1, 1] representation of SU(2) SU(2) group is investigated. It is shown that the spontaneous breakdown is realized in all cases of squared mass ² in mass term in the Lagrangian ( ²>0, ²=0, ²<0), unlike the-model in [1/2, 1/2] representation, in which the spontaneous breakdown only for the case ²<0 manifests itself. Further, different but equivalent methods of obtaining the nonlinear realization for pions in the frame of an extended in such a way-model are demonstrated. Finally, it is sketched, that the obtained results can be generalized to all [N/2,N/2] representations of SU(2) SU(2) chiral group.Presented at the Symposium on Hadron-Hadron Scattering at High Energies, Liblice, Czechoslovakia, June 16–21, 1975.On leave of absence from theDept. of Theoretical Physics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.     

A Note on Transience Versus Recurrence for a Branching Random Walk in Random Environment

We consider a branching random walk in random environment on ^d where particles perform independent simple random walks and branch, according to a given offspring distribution, at a random subset of sites whose density tends to zero at infinity. Given that initially one particle starts at the origin, we identify the critical rate of decay of the density of the branching sites separating transience from recurrence, i.e., the progeny hits the origin with probability <1 resp. =1. We show that for d3 there is a dichotomy in the critical rate of decay, depending on whether the mean offspring at a branching site is above or below a certain value related to the return probability of the simple random walk. The dichotomy marks a transition from local to global behavior in the progeny that hits the origin. We also consider the situation where the branching sites occur in two or more types, with different offspring distributions, and show that the classification is more subtle due to a possible interplay between the types. This note is part of a series of papers by the second author and various co-authors investigating the problem of transience versus recurrence for random motions in random media.     

Correlation tensors of the blackbody radiation in rectangular cavities

Electromagnetic equilibrium fluctuations in finite cavities filled with a dissipative medium (dielectric function ()=+i) and bounded by walls of infinite conductivity are considered. Expanding the fields in terms of a complete and orthonormal set of functions and solving the Maxwell equations the response of the EM field to external forces (polarization and magnetization) is obtained. With the aid of the fluctuation dissipation theorem and the linear response functions the 2nd order correlation tensors of the EM field are derived.For rectangular cavities explicit considerations are made. In the case of transparent media (=0) the spectral energy density of the EM radiation is calculated.     

Field Theory of Branching and Annihilating Random Walks

We develop a systematic analytic approach to the problem of branching and annihilating random walks, equivalent to the diffusion-limited reaction processes 2A and A (m + 1) A, where m 1. Starting from the master equation, a field-theoretic representation of the problem is derived, and fluctuation effects are taken into account via diagrammatic and renormalization group methods. For d > 2, the mean-field rate equation, which predicts an active phase as soon as the branching process is switched on, applies qualitatively for both even and odd m, but the behavior in lower dimensions is shown to be quite different for these two cases. For even m, and d near 2, the active phase still appears immediately, but with nontrivial crossover exponents which we compute in an expansion in = 2 – d, and with logarithmic corrections in d = 2. However, there exists a second critical dimension d_c 4/3 below which a nontrivial inactive phase emerges, with asymptotic behavior characteristic of the pure annihilation process. This is confirmed by an exact calculation in d = 1. The subsequent transition to the active phase, which represents a new nontrivial dynamic universality class, is then investigated within a truncated loop expansion, which appears to give a correct qualitative picture. The model with m = 2 is also generalized to N species of particles, which provides yet another universality class and which is exactly solvable in the limit N . For odd m, we show that the fluctuations of the annihilation process are strong enough to create a nontrivial inactive phase for all d 2. In this case, the transition to the active phase is in the directed percolation universality class. Finally, we study the modification when the annihilation reaction is 3A . When m = 0 (mod 3) the system is always in its active phase, but with logarithmic crossover corrections for d = 1, while the other cases should exhibit a directed percolation transition out of a fluctuation-driven inactive phase.     

Nonsymmetric Kaluza-Klein and Jordan-Thiry theory in a general non-Abelian case

This paper is devoted to an (n+4)-dimensional unification of NGT (nonsymmetric gravitation theory) and Yang-Mills theory in a Jordan-Thiry manner. We find interference effects between gravitational and Yang-Mills fields which appear to be due to the skew-symmetric part of the metric on the (n+4)-dimensional manifold (nonsymmetrically metrized principal fiber bundle). Our unification, called the nonsymmetric-non-Abelian Jordan-Thiry theory, becomes classical if the skew-symmetric part of the metric is zero. We find the Yang-Mills field Lagrangian up to the second order of approximation inh =g – . We also deal with the Lagrangian for the scalar field (connected to the gravitational constant). We consider the spin content of the theory and a relationship between the cosmological constant and the coupling constant between the skewon field and the gauge field in the first order of approximation. We show how to derive a dielectric model of a confinement from interference effects in these theories. We underline some similarities between the nonsymmetric Jordan-Thiry Lagrangian in the flat space limit and the soliton bag model Lagrangian.     

Monte Carlo study of the surface area of liquid droplets

Computer simulation of droplets containingl molecules (l 1000) in a lattice gas shows that the average surface area is proportional tol ; 0.6 in two and = 0.825 in three dimensions for small droplets. These exponents agree approximately with those in Kadanoff's modification of Fisher's droplet model near critical points [= (1 + )/; ourT/T _c is 0.4, 0.7, and 0.9]. For larger droplets, these exponents change to 1/2 (d = 2) and 2/3 (d = 3), the transition occurring for droplet diameters larger than the coherence length and smaller than the critical diameter in the nucleation of supersaturated vapors. This latter result rises some doubts on a recent nucleation theory of Eggingtonet al.     

Critical exponents for numbers of differently anchored polymer chains on fractal lattices with adsorbing boundaries

We study the problem of polymer adsorption in a good solvent when the container of the polymer-solvent system is taken to be a member of the Sierpinski gasket (SG) family of fractals. Members of the SG family are enumerated by an integerb (2b), and it is assumed that one side of each SG fractal is an impenetrable adsorbing boundary. We calculate the critical exponents ₁, ₁₁, and _s , which, within the self-avoiding walk model (SAW) of the polymer chain, are associated with the numbers of all possible SAWs with one, both, and no ends anchored to the adsorbing impenetrable boundary, respectively. By applying the exact renormalization group (RG) method for 2b8 and the Monte Carlo renormalization group (MCRG) method for a sequence of fractals with 2b80, we obtain specific values for these exponents. The obtained results show that all three critical exponents ₁, ₁₁, and _s , in both the bulk phase and crossover region are monotonically increasing functions withb. We discuss their mutual relations, their relations with other critical exponents pertinent to SAWs on the SG fractals, and their possible asymptotic behavior in the limitb, when the fractal dimension of the SG fractals approaches the Euclidean value 2.