A remark on the phase transitions of modified action spin and gauge models

Nathan Seiberg*, Sorin Solomon

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Abstract

We consider the phase diagrams of modified action gauge and spin models and concentrate on their periphery - infinitely far from their origins (zero temperature - β-1 = 0). In this limit the exact positions of the phase transitions are found by looking for the global minimum of the single plaquette action (for a spin system - the single link energy). As the parameters of the model are varied, the position of such a global minimum is in general changed. When this changed is non-analytic, a phase transition takes place. The phase structure for finite β is clearly similar, but not identical to the infinite β one. We discuss several finite β corrections that should be applied to the exactly known infinite β picture. We confront our analysis for infinite β2 = ∑iβ2i with the Monte Carlo simulations for two four-dimensional gauge systems: an SU(3) gauge model with action S=-Re∑p1trUp2(tr Up)2) and an SU(2) model with S=-Re Σp1 1 2trUp2( 1 2trUp)23( 1 2trU p)3].

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)236-240
Number of pages5
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume126
Issue number3-4
DOIs
StatePublished - 30 Jun 1983
Externally publishedYes

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