Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2012-03-19
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
18 pages, 3 figures, refs added
Scientific paper
We analyze the phase diagram of a quantum mean spherical model in terms of the temperature $T$, a quantum parameter $g$, and the ratio $p=-J_{2}/J_{1}$, where $J_{1}>0$ refers to ferromagnetic interactions between first-neighbor sites along the $d$ directions of a hypercubic lattice, and $J_{2}<0$ is associated with competing antiferromagnetic interactions between second neighbors along $m\leq d$ directions. We regain a number of known results for the classical version of this model, including the topology of the critical line in the $g=0$ space, with a Lifshitz point at $p=1/4$, for $d>2$, and closed-form expressions for the decay of the pair correlations in one dimension. In the T=0 phase diagram, there is a critical border, $g_{c}=g_{c}(p) $ for $d\geq2$, with a singularity at the Lifshitz point if $d<(m+4)/2$. We also establish upper and lower critical dimensions, and analyze the quantum critical behavior in the neighborhood of $p=1/4$.
Bienzobaz P. F.
Salinas Silvio R.
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