Exact tricritical point from next-to-leading-order stability analysis

Mar 16, 2022
16 pages
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  • Phys.Rev.D 105 (2022) 11, 116003
  • Published: Jun 1, 2022
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Abstract: (APS)
In the massive chiral Gross-Neveu model, a phase boundary separates a homogeneous from an inhomogeneous phase. It consists of two parts, a second order line and a first order line, joined at a tricritical point. Whereas the first order phase boundary requires a full, numerical Hartree-Fock calculation, the second order phase boundary can be determined exactly and with less effort by a perturbative stability analysis. We extend this stability analysis to higher order perturbation theory. This enables us to locate the tricritical point exactly, without need to perform a Hartree-Fock calculation. Divergencies due to the emergence of spectral gaps in a spatially periodic perturbation are handled using well established tools from many body theory.
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  • 16 pages, 11 figures; v2: typo's corrected; v3: minor improvements
  • higher-order: 1
  • Gross-Neveu model: chiral
  • gap: spectral
  • perturbation theory: higher-order
  • stability
  • perturbation
  • many-body problem