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JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS-THEORY AND EXPERIMENT
Volume 2021, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/ac1f11
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classical phase transitions
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This work focuses on defining and calculating critical exponents associated with higher order thermodynamic phase transitions, categorized into those with or without a local order parameter. The Landau theory is utilized to compute critical exponents for phase transitions involving a local order parameter, while the Wilsonian renormalization group is used to derive scaling forms for observables near criticality and to establish scaling relationships between critical exponents. The fixed points of the renormalization group flow are determined using the one-loop beta function, and critical exponents around these fixed points are calculated for third and fourth order phase transitions.
In this work, we define and calculate critical exponents associated with higher order thermodynamic phase transitions. Such phase transitions can be classified into two classes: with or without a local order parameter. For phase transitions involving a local order parameter, we write down the Landau theory and calculate critical exponents using the saddle point approximation. Further, we investigate fluctuations about the saddle point and demarcate when such fluctuations dominate over saddle point calculations by introducing the generalized Ginzburg criteria. We use Wilsonian renormalization group (RG) to derive scaling forms for observables near criticality and obtain scaling relations between the critical exponents. Afterwards, we find out fixed points of the RG flow using the one-loop beta function and calculate critical exponents about the fixed points for third and fourth order phase transitions.
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