Критическое поведение систем с конкуренцией между близкодействием и дальнодействием

Abstract

Critical behaviour of a range of ferromagnetic materials deviates from the predictions of the Ising, XY and Heisenberg models. Additional long-range forces competing with regular exchange interaction may explain this deviation. These competing interactions lead to new universality classes of critical behaviour. The paper uses the field theory approach to investigate critical behaviour in those systems in which long-range and short-range forces compete. We consider the case when a power function of distance r-D-σ, when 1.5 < σ < 2.0, can describe the long-range forces. There exists a distinctive critical behaviour mode for these values. We derived vertex functions using a two-loop approximation directly in three-dimensional space (D = 3) and, for all values, obtained a linear approximation of asymptotic series in terms of long-range interaction parameters. We applied the Pade --- Borel summation technique to these asymptotic series. We computed stable fixed points and critical exponents as functions of long-range interaction parameters for low relativeefficiency of the long-range interaction. We investigated how critical exponents depend on the factor in the power law and relative long-range interaction intensity. We compared our results to the critical exponent values found experimentally for manganites. We used the experimental critical exponent γ values to compute long-range interaction parameters and then used the long-range interaction parameters to derive the ß exponent values, which we then compared to the experimental values. We show good agreement between our theoretical results and experimental data.