Goldstone mode singularities in O(n) models

TL;DR

This study uses Monte Carlo simulations to analyze Goldstone mode singularities in three-dimensional O(n) models, testing theoretical predictions about critical exponents and their universality across different n values.

Contribution

The paper provides new Monte Carlo estimates of critical exponents b4b5_{ot} and b4b5_{\u2225} in O(n) models with n=2, 4, 10, supporting non-trivial exponents and universality of certain ratios.

Findings

b4b5_{ot} approaches 2 as n increases

b4b5_{\u2225} is consistent with universality

The effective transverse exponent shifts systematically with n

Abstract

Monte Carlo (MC) analysis of the Goldstone mode singularities for the transverse and the longitudinal correlation functions, behaving as G_{\perp}(k) \simeq ak^{-\lambda_{\perp}} and G_{\parallel}(k) \simeq bk^{-\lambda_{\parallel}} in the ordered phase at k -> 0, is performed in the three-dimensional O(n) models with n=2, 4, 10. Our aim is to test some challenging theoretical predictions, according to which the exponents \lambda_{\perp} and \lambda_{\parallel} are non-trivial (3/2<\lambda_{\perp}<2 and 0<\lambda_{\parallel}<1 in three dimensions) and the ratio bM^2/a^2 (where M is a spontaneous magnetization) is universal. The trivial standard-theoretical values are \lambda_{\perp}=2 and \lambda_{\parallel}=1. Our earlier MC analysis gives \lambda_{\perp}=1.955 \pm 0.020 and \lambda_{\parallel} about 0.9 for the O(4) model. A recent MC estimation of \lambda_{\parallel}, assuming corrections to scaling of the standard theory, yields \lambda_{\parallel} = 0.69 \pm 0.10 for the O(2) model. Currently, we have performed a similar MC estimation for the O(10) model, yielding \lambda_{\perp} = 1.9723(90). We have observed that the plot of the effective transverse exponent for the O(4) model is systematically shifted down with respect to the same plot for the O(10) model by \Delta \lambda_{\perp} = 0.0121(52). It is consistent with the idea that 2-\lambda_{\perp} decreases for large $n$ and tends to zero at n -> \infty. We have also verified and confirmed the expected universality of bM^2/a^2 for the O(4) model, where simulations at two different temperatures (couplings) have been performed.