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Deconfined critical point in a doped random quantum Heisenberg magnet

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2020-05-20 v4 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We describe the phase diagram of electrons on a fully connected lattice with random hopping, subject to a random Heisenberg spin exchange interactions between any pair of sites and a constraint of no double occupancy. A perturbative renormalization group analysis yields a critical point with fractionalized excitations at a non-zero critical value pcp_c of the hole doping pp away from the half-filled insulator. We compute the renormalization group to two loops, but some exponents are obtained to all loop order. We argue that the critical point pcp_c is flanked by confining phases: a disordered Fermi liquid with carrier density 1+p1+p for p>pcp>p_c, and a metallic spin glass with carrier density pp for p<pcp<p_c. Additional evidence for the critical behavior is obtained from a large MM analysis of a model which extends the SU(2) spin symmetry to SU(MM). We discuss the relationship of the vicinity of this deconfined quantum critical point to key aspects of cuprate phenomenology.

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@article{arxiv.1912.08822,
  title  = {Deconfined critical point in a doped random quantum Heisenberg magnet},
  author = {Darshan G. Joshi and Chenyuan Li and Grigory Tarnopolsky and Antoine Georges and Subir Sachdev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.08822},
  year   = {2020}
}

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22+32 pages, 13 figures