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Tricritical phase transitions in semi-infinite systems

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Zeitschrift für Physik B Condensed Matter

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Semi-infinite systems with a bulk tricritical point are studied using a free energy functional of the Ginzburg-Landau-Wilson type. Tricritical surface exponents, order parameter profiles and the phase diagram are presented within mean field theory. In the case of ordinary and special transition, renormalization-group methods are used to obtain the exponents of a system withO(n)-symmetry to first order in ɛ=3−d and logarithmic corrections ind=3.

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Speth, W. Tricritical phase transitions in semi-infinite systems. Z. Physik B - Condensed Matter 51, 361–368 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01319219

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