Topology, phase transitions and the spherical model

Details Topology, phase transitions and the spherical model Topology, phase transitions and the spherical model

2005-08-18

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0508419v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 145702 (2005)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.145702

The Topological Hypothesis states that phase transitions should be related to changes in the topology of configuration space. The necessity of such changes has already been demonstrated. We characterize exactly the topology of the configuration space of the short range Berlin-Kac spherical model, for spins lying in hypercubic lattices of dimension d. We find a continuum of changes in the topology and also a finite number of discontinuities in some topological functions. We show however that these discontinuities do not coincide with the phase transitions which happen for d >= 3, and conversely, that no topological discontinuity can be associated to them. This is the first short range, confining potential for which the existence of special topological changes are shown not to be sufficient to infer the occurrence of a phase transition.

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