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Past exam of the quantum condensed matter course of the University of Cambridge 2019 Section B 6 d Solution by
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Close to the critical temperature on the ordered side, both and are small. Expanding the hyperbolic tangent givesFor a nonzero solution, divide by and retain the cubic-order terms:This mean-field onset of two-state ferromagnetism has mean-field critical exponent : the curve reaches zero continuously with a square-root cusp below , and remains exactly zero for all . The factor is what the cubic truncation gives; higher orders also affect the coefficient at relative order , so the robust leading asymptote is .
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