Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2011-12-20
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
17 pages, including 9 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. E
Scientific paper
We employ a mean-field approximation to study the Ising model with aperiodic modulation of its interactions in one spatial direction. Two different values for the exchange constant, $J_A$ and $J_B$, are present, according to the Fibonacci sequence. We calculated the pseudo-critical temperatures for finite systems and extrapolate them to the thermodynamic limit. We explicitly obtain the exponents $\beta$, $\delta$, and $\gamma$ and, from the usual scaling relations for anisotropic models at the upper critical dimension (assumed to be 4 for the model we treat), we calculate $\alpha$, $\nu$, $\nu_{//}$, $\eta$, and $\eta_{//}$. Within the framework of a renormalization-group approach, the Fibonacci sequence is a marginal one and we obtain exponents which depend on the ratio $r \equiv J_B/J_A$, as expected. But the scaling relation $\gamma = \beta (\delta -1)$ is obeyed for all values of $r$ we studied. We characterize some thermodynamic functions as log-periodic functions of their arguments, as expected for aperiodic-modulated models, and obtain precise values for the exponents from this characterization.
Branco N. S.
Oliveira T. P.
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