Charting the scaling region of the Ising universality class in two and three dimensions

Abstract

We study the behaviour of a universal combination of susceptibility and correlation length in the Ising model in two and three dimensions, in presence of both magnetic and thermal perturbations, in the neighbourhood of the critical point. In three dimensions we address the problem using a parametric representation of the equation of state. In two dimensions we make use of the exact integrability of the model along the thermal and the magnetic axes. Our results can be used as a sort of "reference frame" to chart the critical region of the model. While our results can be applied in principle to any possible realization of the Ising universality class, we address in particular, as specific examples, three instances of Ising behaviour in finite temperature QCD related in various ways to the deconfinement transition. In particular, in the last of these examples, we study the critical ending point in the finite density, finite temperature phase diagram of QCD. In this finite density framework, due to well know sign problem, Montecarlo simulations are not possible and thus a direct comparison of experimental results with QFT/Statmech predictions like the one we discuss in this paper may be important. Moreover in this example it is particularly difficult to disentangle "magnetic-like" from "thermal-like" observables and thus universal quantities which do not need a precise identification of the magnetic and thermal axes, like the one we address in this paper, can be particularly useful.

arXiv comment28 pages, 5 figures

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