Universal critical coupling constants for the three-dimensional n-vector model from field theory
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Published on: November 15, 2013
A I Sokolov1, E V Orlov, V A Ul'kov
1Department of Physical Electronics, Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University, Professor Popov Street 5, St. Petersburg 197376, Russia.
Abstract:
The field-theoretical renormalization group (RG) approach in three dimensions is used to estimate the universal critical values of renormalized coupling constants g6 and g8 for the O(n)-symmetric model. The RG series for g6 and g8 are calculated in the four- and three-loop approximations, respectively, and then resummed by means of the Padé-Borel-Leroy technique. Under the optimal value of the shift parameter b providing the fastest convergence of the iteration procedure, numerical estimates for g*6 are obtained with an accuracy no worse than 0.3%. The RG expansion for g8 demonstrates a stronger divergence, and results in considerably cruder numerical estimates.
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