Two-loop renormalization-group analysis of critical behavior at m-axial Lifshitz points

Details Two-loop renormalization-group analysis of critical behavior at m-axial Lifshitz points Two-loop renormalization-group analysis of critical behavior at m-axial Lifshitz points

2001-06-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0106105v2

Nucl. Phys. B 612 (2001) 340-372

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

42 pages, 1 figure; to appear in Nuclear Physics B; footnote added, minor changes in v2

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00309-1

We investigate the critical behavior that d-dimensional systems with short-range forces and a n-component order parameter exhibit at Lifshitz points whose wave-vector instability occurs in a m-dimensional isotropic subspace of ${\mathbb R}^d$. Utilizing dimensional regularization and minimal subtraction of poles in $d=4+{m\over 2}-\epsilon$ dimensions, we carry out a two-loop renormalization-group (RG) analysis of the field-theory models representing the corresponding universality classes. This gives the beta function $\beta_u(u)$ to third order, and the required renormalization factors as well as the associated RG exponent functions to second order, in u. The coefficients of these series are reduced to m-dependent expressions involving single integrals, which for general (not necessarily integer) values of $m\in (0,8)$ can be computed numerically, and for special values of m analytically. The $\epsilon$ expansions of the critical exponents $\eta_{l2}$, $\eta_{l4}$, $\nu_{l2}$, $\nu_{l4}$, the wave-vector exponent $\beta_q$, and the correction-to-scaling exponent are obtained to order $\epsilon^2$. These are used to estimate their values for d=3. The obtained series expansions are shown to encompass both isotropic limits m=0 and m=d.

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