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Universality and nonmonotonic finite-size effects above the upper critical dimension

X. S. Chen, V. Dohm

cond-mat.stat-mecharXiv:cond-mat/0005022

Abstract

We analyze universal and nonuniversal finite-size effects of lattice systems in a Ld geometry above the upper critical dimension d = 4 within the O(n) symmetric ϕ4 lattice theory. On the basis of exact results for n ∞ and one-loop results for n = 1 we identify significant lattice effects that cannot be explained by the ϕ4 continuum theory. Our analysis resolves longstanding discrepancies between earlier asymptotic theories and Monte Carlo (MC) data for the five-dimensional Ising model of small size. We predict a nonmonotonic L dependence of the scaled susceptibility χL-d/2 at Tc with a weak maximum that has not yet been detected by MC data.

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