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Past exam of the phase transitions and collective phenomena course of the University of Cambridge 2012 Paper 1 1 a Solution by
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Use , and separate scaling functions above and below the transition. Up to a nonsingular conversion between physical and dimensionless field, magnetization scaling-function matching givesOn the ordered side take after the thermodynamic limit, selecting one pure thermodynamic phase. A finite nonzero impliesThe critical isotherm must have a finite nonzero limit at fixed small as . Thus at large . Cancellation of the residual power of requiresThe absolute value and branch choice matter: spontaneous zero-field magnetization is below , whereas the symmetry-unbroken thermodynamic phase has . The field crossover exponent is not the scaling dimension of the magnetization field.
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