Symmetry breaking phase transitions in mean-field models triggered by double-well potentials

Fabrizio Baroni ()
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Fabrizio Baroni: IFAC-CNR Institute of applied physics Nello Carrara

The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, 2020, vol. 93, issue 3, 1-11

Abstract: Abstract We present a general rule to shape a long-range potential of a Hamiltonian system for a ℤ2-symmetry breaking phase transition (ℤ2-SBPT) to occur. The main feature is a double-well potential which competes with the entropy in shaping the free energy accordingly to Landau mean-field theory of SBPTs. Further, we introduce a classical spin model undergoing a first-order ℤ2-SBPT which was born from the effort to find one of the simplest way to generate such a phenomenon by means of a double-well potential. The model may be suitable also for didactic purposes and for numerical investigation of the dynamic near the transition point. Finally, we revisit the Ising model and the spherical model (Berlin-Kac) in mean-field version showing the double-well potential at work. Graphical abstract

Keywords: Statistical; and; Nonlinear; Physics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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