Quantum crossover behaviour of the N-vector model in the large-N limit》.pdf

Physica 137A (1986) 258-270 North-Holland, Amsterdam QUANTUM CROSSOVER BEHAVIOUR OF THE N-VECTOR MODEL IN THE LARGE-N LIMIT K. WALASEK Department of Physics, University of Szczecin, Wielkopolska 15, 70-451 Szczecin, Poland Received 1 October 1985 The quantum crossover behaviour of the N-vector model in the large-N limit is studied. Using the field-theoretic renormalization group method the crossover scaling form of the inverse correlation length is obtained. The presented approach is valid in the range of the space dimensionality 2 d ~ 3 . 1. Introduction Studies of the crossover phenomenon between the quantum and classical critical behaviours have been recently made for several systems as the Ising 1-3) and X - Y 45) models in a transverse field, and imperfect Bose gas6). In the renormalization group (RG) language the quantum crossover occurs as the non-linear terms in the RG equations drive the system from the neighbourhood of the less stable quantum fixed point towards the more stable classical fixed point3). The calculations of crossover scaling functions for various ther- modynamical quantities have been performed within the perturbative approach- es as the Hartree-type approximation 15) and e-expansion method2-467). Recently, a quantum version of the RG in the large-N limit has been applied to an investigation of the critical properties at zero temperature of systems with an N-component order parametera). The aim of the present paper is to show that the RG method in the large-N limit is also a useful tool to study the