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Surface transition and epsilon expansion

Year: 1985

Type: article

Abstract: The authors provide the first description of the surface transition that goes beyond mean-field theory and that develops a systematic epsilon -expansion method for this transition. The theory exhibits the emergence of (d-1)-dimensional physics with a complicated dependence on c (the surface interaction parameter). A calculation is provided for the lowest correction to the shift in the critical temperature (from its mean-field value).

Source: Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General

DOI: 10.1088/0305-4470/18/16/027

Authors: A M Nemirovsky, K F Freed

Institution: University of Chicago

Language: English

Topic: Theoretical and Computational Physics

Subfield: Condensed Matter Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: National Science Foundation

Award: Statistical Mechanics of Polymer Systems (Materials Research)