Effect of second-rank random anisotropy on critical phenomena of random field O(N) spin model in the large N limit

Abstract

We study the critical behavior of a random field O($N$) spin model with a second-rank random anisotropy term in spatial dimensions $4<d<6$, by means of the replica method and the 1/N expansion. We obtain a replica-symmetric solution of the saddle-point equation, and we find the phase transition obeying dimensional reduction. We study the stability of the replica-symmetric saddle point against the fluctuation induced by the second-rank random anisotropy. We show that the eigenvalue of the Hessian at the replica-symmetric saddle point is strictly positive. Therefore, this saddle point is stable and the dimensional reduction holds in the 1/N expansion. To check the consistency with the functional renormalization group method, we obtain all fixed points of the renormalization group in the large $N$ limit and discuss their stability. We find that the analytic fixed point yielding the dimensional reduction is practically singly unstable in a coupling constant space of the given model with large $N$. Thus, we conclude that the dimensional reduction holds for sufficiently large $N$.

19 pages, 5 figures

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