Related Experiment Videos
Three-loop critical exponents, amplitude functions, and amplitude ratios from variational perturbation theory
H Kleinert1, B Van den Bossche
1Institut für Theoretische Physik, Arnimallee 14 D-14195 Berlin, Germany.
Abstract:
We use variational perturbation theory to calculate various universal amplitude ratios above and below Tc in minimally subtracted straight phi4 theory with N components in three dimensions. In order to best exhibit the method as a powerful alternative to Borel resummation techniques, we consider only two- and three-loops expressions where our results are analytic expressions. For the critical exponents, we also extend existing analytic expressions for two loops to three loops.