Complex critical exponents for percolation transitions in Josephson-junction arrays, antiferromagnets, and interacting bosons
Strongly Correlated Electrons
2011-03-23 v3 Statistical Mechanics
Superconductivity
Abstract
We show that the critical behavior of quantum systems undergoing a percolation transition is dramatically affected by their topological Berry phase . For irrational , we demonstrate that the low-energy excitations of diluted Josephson-junctions arrays, quantum antiferromagnets, and interacting bosons are spinless fermions with fractal spectrum. As a result, critical properties not captured by the usual Ginzburg-Landau-Wilson description of phase transitions emerge, such as complex critical exponents, log-periodic oscillations and dynamically broken scale-invariance.
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@article{arxiv.1009.2551,
title = {Complex critical exponents for percolation transitions in Josephson-junction arrays, antiferromagnets, and interacting bosons},
author = {Rafael M. Fernandes and Jörg Schmalian},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.2551},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
revised version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett