On a microcanonical relation between continuous and discrete spin models

Details On a microcanonical relation between continuous and discrete spin models On a microcanonical relation between continuous and discrete spin models

2010-11-18

arxiv.org/abs/1011.4164v1

Physical Review Letters 106, 057208 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

5 pages, no figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.057208

A relation between a class of stationary points of the energy landscape of continuous spin models on a lattice and the configurations of a Ising model defined on the same lattice suggests an approximate expression for the microcanonical density of states. Based on this approximation we conjecture that if a O(n) model with ferromagnetic interactions on a lattice has a phase transition, its critical energy density is equal to that of the n = 1 case, i.e., a system of Ising spins with the same interactions. The conjecture holds true in the case of long-range interactions. For nearest-neighbor interactions, numerical results are consistent with the conjecture for n=2 and n=3 in three dimensions. For n=2 in two dimensions (XY model) the conjecture yields a prediction for the critical energy of the Berezinskij-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition, which would be equal to that of the two-dimensional Ising model. We discuss available numerical data in this respect.

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