Frustrated Heisenberg antiferromagnets: fluctuation induced first order vs deconfined quantum criticality
Abstract
Recently it was argued that quantum phase transitions can be radically different from classical phase transitions with as a highlight the 'deconfined critical points' exhibiting fractionalization of quantum numbers due to Berry phase effects. Such transitions are supposed to occur in frustrated ('-') quantum magnets. We have developed a novel renormalization approach for such systems which is fully respecting the underlying lattice structure. According to our findings, another profound phenomenon is around the corner: a fluctuation induced (order-out-of-disorder) first order transition. This has to occur for large spin and we conjecture that it is responsible for the weakly first order behavior recently observed in numerical simulations for frustrated systems.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0601231,
title = {Frustrated Heisenberg antiferromagnets: fluctuation induced first order vs deconfined quantum criticality},
author = {Frank Krüger and Stefan Scheidl},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0601231},
year = {2009}
}
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7 pages, 3 Figures, submitted to EPL