Data di Pubblicazione:
2005
Citazione:
Large-N_f behaviour of the Yukawa model: analytic results / S. Caracciolo, B.M. Mognetti, A. Pelissetto. - In: POS PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENCE. - ISSN 1824-8039. - 2005:(2005), pp. 187/1-187/6.
Abstract:
We investigate the Yukawa model in which N_f fermions
are coupled with a scalar field through a Yukawa interaction.
The phase diagram is rather well understood. If the fermions are massless,
there is a chiral transition at T_c: for T < T_c chiral symmetry is
spontaneously broken. At N_f=infty the transition is mean-field like,
while, for any finite N_f, standard arguments predict Ising behavior.
This apparent contradiction has been explained by Kogut et al.,
who showed by scaling arguments and Monte Carlo simulations that
in the large-N_f limit the width of the Ising critical region
scales as a power of 1/N_f, so that only mean-field
behavior is observed for N_f strictly equal to infinity.
We will show how the results of Kogut et al. can be recovered
analytically in the framework of a generalized 1/N_f expansion.
The method we use is a simple generalization of the method we have
recently applied to a two-dimensional generalized Heisenberg model.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Elenco autori:
S. Caracciolo, B.M. Mognetti, A. Pelissetto
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