Exact Three Dimensional Casimir Force Amplitude, $C$-function and Binder's Cumulant Ratio: Spherical Model Results

Details Exact Three Dimensional Casimir Force Amplitude, $C$-function and Binder's Cumulant Ratio: Spherical Model Results Exact Three Dimensional Casimir Force Amplitude, $C$-function and Binder's Cumulant Ratio: Spherical Model Results

1998-03-12

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9803155v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

12 pages revtex, one eps figure, submitted to Phys. Rev E A set of references added with the text needed to incorporate them.

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.58.1455

The three dimensional mean spherical model on a hypercubic lattice with a film geometry $L\times \infty ^2$ under periodic boundary conditions is considered in the presence of an external magnetic field $H$. The universal Casimir amplitude $\Delta $ and the Binder's cumulant ratio $B$ are calculated exactly and found to be $\Delta =-2\zeta (3)/(5\pi)\approx -0.153051$ and $B=2\pi /(\sqrt{5}\ln ^3[(1+\sqrt{5})/2]).$ A discussion on the relations between the finite temperature $C$-function, usually defined for quantum systems, and the excess free energy (due to the finite-size contributions to the free energy of the system) scaling function is presented. It is demonstrated that the $C$-function of the model equals 4/5 at the bulk critical temperature $T_c$. It is analytically shown that the excess free energy is a monotonically increasing function of the temperature $T$ and of the magnetic field $|H|$ in the vicinity of $T_c.$ This property is supposed to hold for any classical $d$-dimensional $O(n),n>2,$ model with a film geometry under periodic boundary conditions when $d\leq 3$. An analytical evidence is also presented to confirm that the Casimir force in the system is negative both below and in the vicinity of the bulk critical temperature $T_c.$

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