Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
1994-01-29
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
19 pages with 7 figures (LaTeX + epsf.sty), PITHA 94/9
Scientific paper
We study the low-energy effective action $S_{eff}[\varphi]$ for the one-component real scalar field theory in three Euclidean dimensions in the symmetric phase, concentrating on its static part --- effective potential $V_{eff}(\varphi)$. It characterizes the approach to the phase transition in all systems that belong to the 3d Ising universality class. We compute it from the probability distributions of the average magnetization in the 3d Ising model in a homogeneous external field, obtained by Monte Carlo. We find that the $\varphi^6$ term in $V_{eff}$ is important, while the higher terms can be neglected within our statistical errors. Thus we obtain the approximate effective action $$ S_{eff} = \int d^3 x \left\{ {1 \over 2} \partial_\mu \varphi \partial_\mu \varphi + {1 \over 2} m^2 \varphi^2 + m g_4 \varphi^4 + g_6 \varphi^6 \right\} , $$ with arbitrary mass $m$ that sets the scale, and dimensionless couplings $g_4 = 0.97 \pm 0.02$ and $g_6 = 2.05 \pm 0.15$. The value of $g_4$ is consistent with the renormalization group fixed point coupling. This $V_{eff}$, when used instead of the traditional $a \varphi^2 + b \varphi^4$, turns the Ginzburg--Landau description of the long-wave properties of the 3d theory near criticality into quantitatively accurate. It is also relevant to the theory of cosmological phase transitions.
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