Provable first-order transitions for liquid crystal and lattice gauge models with continuous symmetries

Details Provable first-order transitions for liquid crystal and lattice gauge models with continuous symmetries Provable first-order transitions for liquid crystal and lattice gauge models with continuous symmetries

2003-06-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0306362v1

Commun.Math.Phys.255:21-32,2005

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

Scientific paper

10.1007/s00220-004-1286-1

We consider various sufficiently nonlinear sigma models for nematic liquid crystal ordering of RP^{N-1} type and of lattice gauge type with continous symmetries. We rigorously show that they exhibit a first-order transition in the temperature. The result holds in dimension 2 or more for the RP^{N-1} models and in dimension 3 or more for the lattice gauge models. In the two-dimensional case our results clarify and solve a recent controversy about the possibility of such transitions. For lattice gauge models our methods provide the first proof of a first-order transition in a model with a continuous gauge symmetry.

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