Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2003-08-25
Phys. Rev. B 68, 224428 (2003) (30 pages)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
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Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.68.224428
The critical behavior of semi-infinite $d$-dimensional systems with $n$-component order parameter $\bm{\phi}$ and short-range interactions is investigated at an $m$-axial bulk Lifshitz point whose wave-vector instability is isotropic in an $m$-dimensional subspace of $\mathbb{R}^d$. The associated $m$ modulation axes are presumed to be parallel to the surface, where $0\le m\le d-1$. An appropriate semi-infinite $|\bm{\phi}|^4$ model representing the corresponding universality classes of surface critical behavior is introduced. It is shown that the usual O(n) symmetric boundary term $\propto \bm{\phi}^2$ of the Hamiltonian must be supplemented by one of the form $\mathring{\lambda} \sum_{\alpha=1}^m(\partial\bm{\phi}/\partial x_\alpha)^2$ involving a dimensionless (renormalized) coupling constant $\lambda$. The implied boundary conditions are given, and the general form of the field-theoretic renormalization of the model below the upper critical dimension $d^*(m)=4+{m}/{2}$ is clarified. Fixed points describing the ordinary, special, and extraordinary transitions are identified and shown to be located at a nontrivial value $\lambda^*$ if $\epsilon\equiv d^*(m)-d>0$. The surface critical exponents of the ordinary transition are determined to second order in $\epsilon$. Extrapolations of these $\epsilon$ expansions yield values of these exponents for $d=3$ in good agreement with recent Monte Carlo results for the case of a uniaxial ($m=1$) Lifshitz point. The scaling dimension of the surface energy density is shown to be given exactly by $d+m (\theta-1)$, where $\theta=\nu_{l4}/\nu_{l2}$ is the anisotropy exponent.
Diehl H. W.
Gerwinski A.
Rutkevich Sergei
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