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We characterize the topology of the phase space of the Berlin-Kac spherical model in the context of the so called Topological Hypothesis, for spins lying in hypercubic lattices of dimension d. For zero external field we are able to characterize the topology exactly, up to homology. We find that, even though there is a continuum of changes in the topology of the corresponding manifolds, for d ≥ 3 there are abrupt discontinuities in some topological functions that could be good candidates to associate with the phase transitions that occur at the thermodynamic level. We show however that these changes do not coincide with the phase transitions and conversely, that no topological discontinuity can be associated to the points where the phase transitions take place. At variance with what happens in the Mean Field version of this same model, we show that these abrupt topological changes are accessible thermodynamically. We conclude that, even in short range systems, the topological mechanism does not seem to be responsible for the triggering of a phase transition. We also analyze the case of spins connected to a macroscopic number of (but not all) neighbors, and find that, similar to the results found for the fully connected version, in this case the topological hypothesis seems to hold: the phase transition coincides with an accumulation point of the topological changes present in configuration space. The question of the ensemble equivalence in the short range spherical model is also considered.
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Risau-Gusman, S., Ribeiro-Teixeira, A.C. & Stariolo, D.A. Topology and Phase Transitions: The Case of the Short Range Spherical Model. J Stat Phys 124, 1231–1253 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10955-006-9178-8
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