The fully finite spherical model

Abstract

A lattice sum technique is applied to the constraint equation of the finite size mean spherical model. It is shown that this allows the investigation of the model over a wide range of temperatures, for a wide range of system sizes. Correlation lengths and susceptibilities are shown to obey crossover scaling aroundT=0 below the lower critical dimension, and finite size scaling between the lower and upper critical dimensions. Universal scaling forms are suggested for the lower critical dimension. At and above the upper critical dimension, the behavior is identical to that of finite sized mean field theory. The scaling at and above the upper critical dimension is shown to be modified by the existence of a dangerous irrelevant variable which also governs the failure of hyperscaling. Implications for phenomenological renormalization experiments are discussed. Numerical results of scaling are displayed.