Topological conditions for discrete symmetry breaking and phase transitions

Details Topological conditions for discrete symmetry breaking and phase transitions Topological conditions for discrete symmetry breaking and phase transitions

2005-07-30

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0508016v1

J. Phys. A: Math. Gen 39, 529 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

Scientific paper

10.1088/0305-4470/39/3/006

In the framework of a recently proposed topological approach to phase transitions, some sufficient conditions ensuring the presence of the spontaneous breaking of a Z_2 symmetry and of a symmetry-breaking phase transition are introduced and discussed. A very simple model, which we refer to as the hypercubic model, is introduced and solved. The main purpose of this model is that of illustrating the content of the sufficient conditions, but it is interesting also in itself due to its simplicity. Then some mean-field models already known in the literature are discussed in the light of the sufficient conditions introduced here.

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