Magnetic fluctuations in the classical XY model: the origin of an exponential tail in a complex system

Details Magnetic fluctuations in the classical XY model: the origin of an exponential tail in a complex system Magnetic fluctuations in the classical XY model: the origin of an exponential tail in a complex system

2000-08-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0008093v2

Phys. Rev. E 63 (2001) 041106.

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

32 pages, 13 figures, 1 table. Few changes. To appear in Phys. Rev. E

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.63.041106

We study the probability density function for the fluctuations of the magnetic order parameter in the low temperature phase of the XY model of finite size. In two-dimensions this system is critical over the whole of the low temperature phase. It is shown analytically and without recourse to the scaling hypothesis that, in this case, the distribution is non-Gaussian and of universal form, independent of both system size and critical exponent $\eta$. An exact expression for the generating function of the distribution is obtained, which is transformed and compared with numerical data from high resolution molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations. The calculation is extended to general dimension and an exponential tail is found in all dimensions less than four, despite the fact that critical fluctuations are limited to D=2. These results are discussed in the light of similar behaviour observed in models of interface growth and for dissipative systems driven into a non-equilibrium steady state.

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