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Frustrated Heisenberg antiferromagnets: fluctuation induced first order vs deconfined quantum criticality

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2009-11-11 v1

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 ('J1J_1-J2J_2') 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 S=1/2S=1/2 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