title: Information geometry of the spherical model.
abstract: Motivated by the observation that geometrizing statistical mechanics offers an interesting alternative to more standard approaches, we calculate the scaling behavior of the curvature R of the information geometry metric for the spherical model. We find that R approximately epsilon(-2), where epsilon=beta(c)-beta is the distance from criticality. The discrepancy from the naively expected scaling R approximately epsilon(-3) is explained and compared with that for the Ising model on planar random graphs, which shares the same critical exponents.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Leipzig, Augustusplatz 10/11, D-04109 Leipzig, Germany.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Janke
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Johnston
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kenna