SECOND ORDER PHASE TRANSITION IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL SINE-GORDON FIELD THEORY: LATTICE MODEL

May, 1978
16 pages
Published in:
  • Pramana 11 (1978) 17
Report number:
  • PRINT-78-0880 (COCHIN)

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Abstract: (Springer)
Two dimensional sine-Gordon (SG) field theory on a lattice is studied using the single-site basis variational method of Drell and others. The nature of the phase transition associated with the spontaneous symmetry breakdown in a SG field system is clarified to be of second order. A generalisation is offered for a SG-type field theory in two dimensions with a potential of the from [cosn(√λ/m)ϕ−1].
  • FIELD THEORY: TWO-DIMENSIONAL
  • FIELD THEORY: CRITICAL PHENOMENA
  • sine-Gordon equation
  • APPROXIMATION: LATTICE
  • SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING