Deconfined classical criticality in the anisotropic quantum spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ XY model on the square lattice

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Main Authors: Mudry, Christopher, Aksoy, Ömer M., Chamon, Claudio, Furusaki, Akira
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Published: 2024
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author Mudry, Christopher
Aksoy, Ömer M.
Chamon, Claudio
Furusaki, Akira
author_facet Mudry, Christopher
Aksoy, Ömer M.
Chamon, Claudio
Furusaki, Akira
contents The anisotropic quantum spin-1/2 XY model on a linear chain was solved by Lieb, Schultz, and Mattis in 1961 and shown to display a continuous quantum phase transition at the O(2) symmetric point separating two gapped phases with competing Ising long-range order. For the square lattice, the following is known. The two competing Ising ordered phases extend to finite temperatures, up to a boundary where a transition to the paramagnetic phase occurs, and meet at the O(2) symmetric critical line along the temperature axis that ends at a tricritical point at the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition temperature where the two competing phases meet the paramagnetic phase. We show that the first-order zero-temperature (quantum) phase transition that separates the competing phases as a function of the anisotropy parameter is smoothed by thermal fluctuations into deconfined classical criticality.
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spellingShingle Deconfined classical criticality in the anisotropic quantum spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ XY model on the square lattice
Mudry, Christopher
Aksoy, Ömer M.
Chamon, Claudio
Furusaki, Akira
Strongly Correlated Electrons
The anisotropic quantum spin-1/2 XY model on a linear chain was solved by Lieb, Schultz, and Mattis in 1961 and shown to display a continuous quantum phase transition at the O(2) symmetric point separating two gapped phases with competing Ising long-range order. For the square lattice, the following is known. The two competing Ising ordered phases extend to finite temperatures, up to a boundary where a transition to the paramagnetic phase occurs, and meet at the O(2) symmetric critical line along the temperature axis that ends at a tricritical point at the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition temperature where the two competing phases meet the paramagnetic phase. We show that the first-order zero-temperature (quantum) phase transition that separates the competing phases as a function of the anisotropy parameter is smoothed by thermal fluctuations into deconfined classical criticality.
title Deconfined classical criticality in the anisotropic quantum spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ XY model on the square lattice
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.17605