Critical phenomena and quantum phase transition in long range Heisenberg antiferromagnetic chains

Laflorencie, Nicolas; Affleck, Ian; Berciu, Mona

Critical phenomena and quantum phase transition in long range Heisenberg antiferromagnetic chains

Authors

Laflorencie, Nicolas

Affleck, Ian

Berciu, Mona

Description

Antiferromagnetic Hamiltonians with short-range, non-frustrating interactions are well-known to exhibit long range magnetic order in dimensions, $d\geq 2$ but exhibit only quasi long range order, with power law decay of correlations, in d=1 (for half-integer spin). On the other hand, non-frustrating long range interactions can induce long range order in d=1. We study Hamiltonians in which the long range interactions have an adjustable amplitude lambda, as well as an adjustable power-law $1/|x|^α$, using a combination of quantum Monte Carlo and analytic methods: spin-wave, large-N non-linear sigma model, and renormalization group methods. We map out the phase diagram in the lambda-alpha plane and study the nature of the critical line separating the phases with long range and quasi long range order. We find that this corresponds to a novel line of critical points with continuously varying critical exponents and a dynamical exponent, z<1.
27 pages, 12 figures. RG flow added. Final version to appear in JSTAT