Numerical Simulation of N-vector Spin Models in a Magnetic Field

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2006-10-30

arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0610126v1

Braz. J. Phys., vol. 36, no 3A, September 2006, 648

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Lattice

6 pages, 2 figures. Work presented at the IV Brazilian Meeting on Simulational Physics -- Ouro Preto - MG/Brazil, August 2005

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Three-dimensional N-vector spin models may define universality classes for such diverse phenomena as i) the superfluid transition in liquid helium (currently investigated in the micro-gravity environment of the Space Shuttle) and ii) the transition from hadronic matter to a quark-gluon plasma, studied in heavy-ion collisions at the laboratories of Brookhaven and CERN. The models have been extensively studied both by field-theoretical and by statistical mechanical methods, including Monte Carlo simulations using cluster algorithms. These algorithms are applicable also in the presence of a magnetic field. Key quantities for the description of the transitions above -- such as universal critical amplitude ratios and the location of the so-called pseudo-critical line -- can be obtained from the models' magnetic equation of state, which relates magnetization, external magnetic field and temperature. Here we present an improved parametrization for the equation of state of the models, allowing a better fit to the numerical data. Our proposed form is inspired by perturbation theory, with coefficients determined nonperturbatively from fits to the data.

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