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Tricritical heat-capacity amplitude in a sextic Landau expansion (Csing​=Tb3/2(Tc​−T)−1/2/(23d′​))

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For F=F0​+b(T−Tc​)M2+d′M6 with b,d′>0, the ordered minimum has M4=b(Tc​−T)/(3d′). Its singular free energy is −2b3/2(Tc​−T)3/2/27d′​. Twice differentiating in temperature gives the displayed ordered-side heat capacity singularity, with mean-field critical exponent α=1/2. This path keeps the quartic coefficient tuned to zero; a generic path with a positive quartic term instead crosses over to the ordinary quartic result.

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  • Past exam of the thermal and statistical physics course of the University of Cambridge / 2018 / Section B / B4 / Solution

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