Dimensional Crossover and Effective Exponents

Details Dimensional Crossover and Effective Exponents Dimensional Crossover and Effective Exponents

1996-04-22

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9604125v2

Nucl.Phys.B497:611-638,1997

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

24 pages, TeX, 8 figures in separate file, Updated version to appear in Nucl. Phys. B

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00212-5

We investigate the critical behavior of the lambda phi^4 theory defined on S^1 x R^d having two finite length scales beta, the circumference of S^1, and k^{-1}, the blocking scale introduced by the renormalization group transformation. By numerically solving the coupled differential RG equations for the finite-temperature blocked potential U_{beta,k}(Phi) and the wavefunction renormalization constant Z_{beta,k}(Phi), we demonstrate how the finite-size scaling variable betabar = beta k determines whether the phase transition is (d+1)- or d-dimensional in the limits betabar >> 1 and betabar << 1, respectively. For the intermediate values of betabar, finite-size effects play an important role. We also discuss the failure of the polynomial expansion of the effective potential near criticality.

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