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Anomalous scaling at the quantum critical point

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We show that Hertz ϕ4\phi^4 theory of quantum criticality is incomplete as it misses anomalous non-local contributions to the interaction vertices. For antiferromagnetic quantum transitions, we found that the theory is renormalizable only if the dynamical exponent z=2z=2. The upper critical dimension is still d=4z=2d= 4-z =2, however the number of marginal vertices at d=2d=2 is infinite. As a result, the theory has a finite anomalous exponent already at the upper critical dimension. We show that for d<2d<2 the Gaussian fixed point splits into two non-Gaussian fixed points. For both fixed points, the dynamical exponent remains z=2z=2.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0409601,
  title  = {Anomalous scaling at the quantum critical point},
  author = {Ar. Abanov and A. Chubukov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0409601},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures

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