Anomalous Curie response of impurities in quantum-critical spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnets

dc.creatorHoglund, K. H.
dc.creatorSandvik, A. W.
dc.date2007-01-19
dc.date2007-07-29
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T08:20:37Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T08:20:37Z
dc.descriptionWe consider a magnetic impurity in two different S=1/2 Heisenberg bilayer antiferromagnets at their respective critical inter-layer couplings separating N'eel and disordered ground states. We calculate the impurity susceptibility using a quantum Monte Carlo method. With intra-layer couplings in only one of the layers (Kondo lattice), we observe an anomalous Curie constant C*, as predicted on the basis of field-theoretical work [S. Sachdev et al., Science 286, 2479 (1999)]. The value C*=0.262 +/- 0.002 is larger than the normal Curie constant C=S(S+1)/3. Our low-temperature results for the symmetric bilayer are consistent with a universal C*.
dc.description4 pages, 4 figures. v2: minor changes, published version
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0701472
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0701472
dc.identifierPhys. Rev. Lett. 99, 027205 (2007)
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/135119
dc.subjectStrongly Correlated Electrons
dc.titleAnomalous Curie response of impurities in quantum-critical spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnets
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