Temporary HW

Problem 1: Ginzburg criterion in arbitrary spatial dimension and upper critical dimension

The general solution for the correlation function in arbitrary spatial dimension $d$ within the mean-field theory can be written as:

$G(r)\sim \frac{e^{-r/\xi }}{r^{d-2}}$

assuming that distance $r\gg a$ is much larger than the lattice spacing $a$.

(a) Generalize the Ginzburg criterion

$\frac{G(r)}{\int m^{2}d\mathbf{𝐫}}\ll 1$

for the validity of the mean-field theory to arbitrary spatial dimension $d$ to show that it is satisfied if

$d>2+2\beta /\nu$.

where $\beta$ and $\nu$ are critical exponents for describing vanishing of the order parameter $m$ and divergence of the correlation length $\xi$, respectively.

(b) Using your result in (a), find the upper critical dimension for the Ising model above which its critical behavior near temperature $T_c$ is well-described by the mean-field theory.

Problem 3: Renormalization group for 1D Ising model using transfer matrix method

The partition function for the N-spin Ising chain can be written as the trace of the N-th power of the transfer matrix T. Another way to reduce the number of degrees of freedom is the describe the system in terms of two-spin cells, where the partition function is written as:

$Z=\mathrm{T}\mathrm{r}{\mathbf{𝐓}}^N=\mathrm{T}\mathrm{r}({\mathbf{𝐓}}^2{)}^{N/2}=\mathrm{T}\mathrm{r}{{\mathbf{𝐓}}^{\prime }}^{N/2}$