English

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 2πρ2\pi\rho. For irrational ρ\rho, 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