Spin-mixture contribution to zero-field susceptibility

ID: spin-mixture-contribution-to-zero-field-susceptibility

In a symmetric equal mixture of two ordered pure thermodynamic phases with magnetizations , the mean spin vanishes but the large-distance two-spin expectation tends to . Thus the connected correlation function of the mixture has a nondecaying part. The correlation-function susceptibility sum rule gives an extensive contribution to susceptibility per spin. This is phase-switching response, not the connected susceptibility within one pure phase. The latter uses the thermodynamic limit followed by a one-sided zero-field limit, and subtracts the nonzero pure-phase mean before defining the correlation length.

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