Abstract
We study the two-dimensional semi-infinite Ising model with a free surface at or near bulk criticality. Special attention is paid to the influence of a boundary magnetic field h1 on the surface-near regime and the crossover between the fixed points at h1=0 and h1=∞. Near the surface, a smallh1 causes a steeply increasing magnetization m(z)~z3/8 log z as the distance z increases away from the surface. By means of a phenomenological scaling analysis, this phenomenon can be related to the well-known logarithmic dependence of the surface magnetization m1 on h1. Our analysis provides a deeper understanding of the existing exact results on m(z) and relates the short-distance phenomena in d=2 to those in higher dimensions. Both the results of the scaling analysis and the exact analytic profiles are corroborated by Monte Carlo simulations.
Dates
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Created | 23 years, 1 month ago (July 28, 2002, 3:09 p.m.) |
Deposited | 6 years ago (Aug. 7, 2019, 7:22 a.m.) |
Indexed | 1 year, 6 months ago (Feb. 7, 2024, 4:36 a.m.) |
Issued | 28 years, 1 month ago (July 10, 1997) |
Published | 28 years, 1 month ago (July 10, 1997) |
Published Online | 13 years, 7 months ago (Jan. 25, 2012) |
Published Print | 28 years, 1 month ago (July 10, 1997) |
@article{Czerner_1997, title={Magnetization Profile in the D= 2 Semi-Infinite Ising Model and Crossover Between Ordinary and Normal Transition}, volume={11}, ISSN={1793-6578}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0217979297001076}, DOI={10.1142/s0217979297001076}, number={17}, journal={International Journal of Modern Physics B}, publisher={World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt}, author={Czerner, Peter and Ritschel, Uwe}, year={1997}, month=jul, pages={2075–2091} }