Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2009-04-09
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
46 pages, 15 figures
Scientific paper
We study the finite size scaling behaviour of the specific heat of thin films in the neighbourhood of the lambda-transition. To this end we have simulated the improved two-component phi^4 model on the simple cubic lattice. We employ free boundary conditions in the short direction to mimic the vanishing order parameter at the boundaries of a 4He film. Most of our simulations are performed for the thicknesses L_0=8,16 and 32 of the film. It turns out that one has to take into account corrections proportional 1/L_0 to obtain a good collapse of the finite size scaling functions obtained from different L_0. Our results are compared with those obtained from experiments on thin films of 4He near the lambda-transition, from field theory and from previous Monte Carlo simulations.
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