Critical Exponents Can Be Different on the Two Sides of a Transition: A Generic Mechanism
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- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.200601
Critical Exponents Can Be Different on the Two Sides of a Transition: A Generic Mechanism
Abstract
We present models where γ(+) and γ(-), the exponents of the susceptibility in the high- and low-temperature phases, are generically different. In these models, continuous symmetries are explicitly broken down by discrete anisotropies that are irrelevant in the renormalization-group sense. The Z(q)-invariant models are the simplest examples for two-component order parameters (N=2) and the model with icosahedral symmetry for N=3. We accurately compute γ(+)-γ(-) as well as the ratio ν/ν' of the exponents of the two correlation lengths present for T
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