非平衡相变的临界标度理论及普适性

综述了作者近年来在非平衡相变临界（ Ｎ Ｐ Ｃ） 标度理论及普适性研究的进展。主要包括一般 Ｎ Ｐ Ｃ 系统规格化模型,局域序参量的概率分布,广义势的临界渐近形式,空时有关函数及其临界奇异行为。论证了 Ｎ Ｐ Ｃ 系统的临界可标度性,导出了一组普适的 Ｎ Ｐ Ｃ 标度关系,由之计算出的４ 种 Ｎ Ｐ Ｃ 普适类的临界指数与目前已知的实验及理论结果吻合得非常好。此外,还讨论了非平衡相变临界标度理论的普适性,将平衡相变临界标度理论作为一种特殊极限情况含于同一理论体系中。     

自对耦无序分布随机链Potts模型的临界普适性研究

以蒙特卡罗模拟方法对自对耦分布二维随机链q态Potts模型的短时临界行为进行了数值研究.利用初始非平衡演化阶段存在的普适幂指数和有限体积标度行为，数值模拟了在不同形式随机分布时q＝3和q＝8态Potts模型磁临界指数η和动力学临界指数z.计算结果发现η不依赖于自对偶无序分布的具体形式， 从而以数值方法给出了一个关于淬火掺杂自旋系统的临界普适行为的验证. 关键词： 随机链Potts模型 动力学蒙特卡罗模拟 临界普适性     

威耳逊的临界点相变的重正化群理论

临界现象的研究进展缓慢,６０年代实验方面的发展使人们相继建立了几个标度理论及普适性理论,并提出了标度变换概念,威耳逊一直从事量子场论的研究,对相变理论也很关注,对迹些唯象理论不满,他把量子场论中的重正化群概念应用到相变理论中,并运用标度律和普适性概念,建立了临界点的重点重正化群理论,提供了研究临界点现象的系统方法。     

伊辛模型的四分支临界面及其临界行为

本文通过等标度同普适类变换理论,使严格的重正化群递推方程得以直接应用。对伊辛模型的计算产生了四个不动点、四支临界面。对应于铁磁及反铁磁相变,其结果与已知的严格解及最好近似解一致。对于超反铁磁相变,本文提出临界曲面方程为—ch(h)=sh(2K_x)sh(2K_y)。 关键词：     

Erdös Rényi随机网络上爆炸渗流模型相变性质的数值模拟研究

基于改进的Newman和Ziff算法以及有限尺寸标度理论, 通过对表征渗流相变特征物理量的序参量、平均集团尺寸、二阶矩、标准偏差及尺寸不均匀性的数值模拟, 分析研究了Erdös Rényi随机网络上Achlioptas爆炸渗流模型的相变性质.研究表明: 尽管序参量表现出了不连续相变的特征, 但序参量以及其他特征物理量仍具有连续相变的幂律标度行为.因此严格地说, Erdös Rényi随机网络中的爆炸渗流相变是一种奇异相变, 它既不是标准的不连续相变, 又与常规随机渗流表现出的连续相变处于不同的普适类. 关键词： Erdös Rényi随机网络 爆炸渗流模型 相变 幂律标度行为     

Thom系统标度性的证明

本文应用突变论(catastrophe theory)证得了Thom系统自由能函数族的普适的临界渐近形式,并从它推导了临界指数公式,标度律和标度假设。 关键词：     

Erd¨os R′enyi随机网络上爆炸渗流模型相变性质的数值模拟研究

基于改进的Newman和Ziff算法以及有限尺寸标度理论,通过对表征渗流相变特征物理量的序参量、平均集团尺寸、二阶矩、标准偏差及尺寸不均匀性的数值模拟,分析研究了Erd¨os R′enyi随机网络上Achlioptas爆炸渗流模型的相变性质.研究表明:尽管序参量表现出了不连续相变的特征,但序参量以及其他特征物理量仍具有连续相变的幂律标度行为.因此严格地说, Erd¨os R′enyi随机网络中的爆炸渗流相变是一种奇异相变,它既不是标准的不连续相变,又与常规随机渗流表现出的连续相变处于不同的普适类.     

二维伊辛模型的畴壁动力学

表面可以改变纳米磁性薄膜的结构和相变温度,畴壁动力学由此成为研究的重点.本文采用动力学蒙特卡罗模拟方法,对二维Ising模型磁畴界面的非平衡动力学展开数值研究.系统初态设为半正半负,即由完全有序但自旋取向完全相反的两部分组成,其间的磁畴壁随时间生长.通过对磁化标度形式的分析,发现畴壁内外的动力学标度形式虽然相同,但临界...     

含有Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya相互作用的自旋1键交替海森伯模型的量子相变和拓扑序标度

利用张量网络表示的无限矩阵乘积态算法研究了含有Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM)相互作用的键交替海森伯模型的量子相变和临界标度行为.基于矩阵乘积态的基态波函数计算了系统的量子纠缠熵及非局域拓扑序.数据表明,随着键交替强度变化,系统从拓扑有序的Haldane相转变为局域有序的二聚化相.同时DM相互作用抑制了系统的二聚化,并最终打破系统的完全二聚化.另外,通过对相变点附近二聚化序的一阶导数和长程弦序的数值拟合,分别得到了此模型相变的特征临界指数a和b的值.结果表明,随着DM相互作用强度的增强, a逐渐减小,同时b逐渐增大. DM相互作用强度影响着此模型的临界行为.针对此模型的临界性质的研究,揭示了量子自旋相互作用的彼此竞争机制,对今后研究含有DM相互作用的自旋多体系统中拓扑量子相变临界行为提供一定的借鉴与参考.     

斯格明子相关的螺旋磁有序体系的临界行为

介绍了与斯格明子相关的螺旋磁有序体系的临界行为.首先阐述了连续相变中的临界现象、临界指数、标度律、普适性等概念;随后介绍了磁相变体系中几种临界指数的获得方法,包括直流磁性迭代法、磁熵变法;进而,分析了几类与斯格明子相关的螺旋磁有序体系的临界行为.MnSi是典型的斯格明子材料,临界指数显示其磁性行为符合三重临界行为.MnSi的临界行为揭示:外磁场可以抑制这一体系在零场下的一级相变,使其转变为二级相变,从而在螺旋磁有序、锥形磁有序、顺磁相的三相交汇点形成三重临界点.斯格明子体系FeGe和Cu_2OSeO_3的临界行为符合三维海森伯相互作用,表明它们的磁性行为主要是由近邻的各向同性的自旋耦合作用所决定;而Fe_(1-x)Co_xSi和新发现的斯格明子体系Fe_(1.5-x)Co_xRh_(0.5)MoN的临界行为显示Co掺杂可以有效地调制其中的磁性耦合.对螺旋磁有序体系的临界行为研究表明,尽管这些体系都表现出类似的斯格明子态,但是它们的磁性耦合机制却大不相同,并且其耦合机制可以受到外界手段的调制.最后,根据普适性原理和标度方程,阐述了一种构建磁场诱导相变体系在临界温度附近H-T相图的方法.     

CRITICAL SCALING THEORY OF GENERALIZED PHASE TRANSITION AND ITS UNIVERSALITY

Generalized phase transition (GPT) refers to the transition process of material systems from one steady-state to another. It includes equilibrium phase transition (EPT) and nonequilibrium phase transition (NPT), and phase transitions intermediate between them. In this paper some results on the study of critical scaling relations of the NPT and EPT are obtained. We developed the critical scaling theory of EPT and advanced a universal critical scaling theory of GPT. The critical scaling relations(scaling laws) has more niversality. The critical exponents calculated from our theory are identical with the results of experiments and other theories about EPT and NPT systems. Because the basic model of the theory does not depend on the concrete material system, it has a certain unversality. Its results thus can be applied to generlized phase transition systems, such as the electrorheological fluid and magnetorheological fluid systems.     

Universal amplitude ratios of critical sound attenuation

The universal amplitude ratios for ultrasonic attenuation above and below the critical point are determined for uniaxial magnets, the gas liquid critical point, binary mixtures and related universality classes. For uniaxial ferromagnets also the scaling functions are computed. The theory is based on time dependent Ginzburg-Landau models and the ?=4?d-expansion. Depending on the universality class the universal amplitude ratio assumes values in the range 1/15 to 15. In systems with continuous internal symmetry Goldstone mode singularities are found.     

Failure of mean field theory at large N

We study strongly coupled lattice QCD with N colors of staggered fermions in 3+1 dimensions. While mean field theory describes the low temperature behavior of this theory at large N, it fails in the scaling region close to the finite temperature second order chiral phase transition. The universal critical region close to the phase transition belongs to the 3D XY universality class even when N becomes large. This is in contrast to Gross-Neveu models where the critical region shrinks as N (the number of flavors) increases and mean field theory is expected to describe the phase transition exactly in the limit of infinite N. Our work demonstrates that infrared fluctuations can be important close to second order phase transitions even when N is strictly infinite.     

Universal behavior of crossover scaling functions for continuous phase transitions

We consider two different systems exhibiting a continuous phase transition into an absorbing state. Both models belong to the same universality class; i.e., they are characterized by the same scaling functions and the same critical exponents. Varying the range of interactions, we examine the crossover from the mean-field-like to the non-mean-field scaling behavior. A phenomenological scaling form is applied in order to describe the full crossover region, which spans several decades. Our results strongly support the hypothesis that the crossover function is universal.     

Universality Under Conditions of Self-tuning

We study systems with a continuous phase transition that tune their parameters to maximize a quantity that diverges solely at a unique critical point. Varying the size of these systems with dynamically adjusting parameters, the same finite-size scaling is observed as in systems where all relevant parameters are fixed at their critical values. This scheme is studied using a self-tuning variant of the Ising model. It is contrasted with a scheme where systems approach criticality through a target value for the order parameter that vanishes with increasing system size. In the former scheme, the universal exponents are observed in naïve finite-size scaling studies, whereas in the latter they are not.     

Universal conductance of nanowires near the superconductor-metal quantum transition

We consider wires near a zero temperature transition between superconducting and metallic states. The critical theory obeys hyperscaling, which leads to a universal frequency, temperature, and length dependence of the conductance; quantum and thermal phase slips are contained within this critical theory. Normal, superconducting, and mixed (SN) leads on the wire determine distinct universality classes. For the SN case, wires near the critical point have a universal dc conductance which is independent of the length of the wire at low temperatures.     

Tricritical Directed Percolation

We consider a modification of the contact process incorporating higher-order reaction terms. The original contact process exhibits a non-equilibrium phase transition belonging to the universality class of directed percolation. The incorporated higher-order reaction terms lead to a non-trivial phase diagram. In particular, a line of continuous phase transitions is separated by a tricritical point from a line of discontinuous phase transitions. The corresponding tricritical scaling behavior is analyzed in detail, i.e., we determine the critical exponents, various universal scaling functions as well as universal amplitude combinations. PACS numbers: 05.70.Ln, 05.50.+q, 05.65.+b     

Off-critical Casimir effect in Ising slabs with symmetric boundary conditions in d=3

Extended de Gennes-Fisher (EdGF) local-functional method has been applied to the thermodynamic Casimir effect away from the critical point for systems in the Ising universality class confined between parallel plane plates with symmetric boundary conditions [denoted (ab)=(++)]. Results on the universal scaling functions of the Casimir force W++(y) (y is a temperature-dependent scaling variable) and Gibbs adsorption G[over ](y) are presented in spatial dimension d=3. Also, the mean-field form of the universal scaling function of the Gibbs adsorption G[over ](y) is derived within the local functional theory. Asymptotic behavior of W++(y) for large values of the scaling variable y is analyzed in general dimension d.