Test of renormalization predictions for universal finite-size scaling functions.
We calculate universal finite-size scaling functions for systems with an n-component order parameter and algebraically decaying interactions. Just as previously found for short-range interactions, this leads to a singular epsilon expansion, where epsilon is the distance to the upper critical dimension. Subsequently, we check the results by numerical simulations of spin models in the same universality class. Our systems offer the essential advantage that epsilon can be varied continuously, allowing an accurate examination of the region where epsilon is small. The numerical calculations turn out to be in striking disagreement with the predicted singularity.
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Department of Physics, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5046, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands. erik.luijten@uni-mainz.de