The question concerning the possibility of a first-order surface transition in a semi-infinite Blume-Capel model is addressed by means of low temperature expansions. It is found that such a transition can exist, according to mean field and cluster variation approximations, and in contrast to results from renormalization group approximations.

Low-temperature expansion for a first-order surface transition / Buzano, C.; Pelizzola, Alessandro. - In: JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER. - ISSN 0953-8984. - 5:(1993), pp. 7319-7323. [10.1088/0953-8984/5/40/007]

Low-temperature expansion for a first-order surface transition

PELIZZOLA, ALESSANDRO
1993

Abstract

The question concerning the possibility of a first-order surface transition in a semi-infinite Blume-Capel model is addressed by means of low temperature expansions. It is found that such a transition can exist, according to mean field and cluster variation approximations, and in contrast to results from renormalization group approximations.
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