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Impurity induced spin texture in quantum critical 2D antiferromagnets

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2007-07-29 v2

Abstract

We describe the uniform and staggered magnetization distributions around a vacancy in a quantum critical two-dimensional S=1/2 antiferromagnet. The distributions are delocalized across the entire sample with a universal functional form arising from an uncompensated Berry phase. The numerical results, obtained using quantum Monte Carlo simulations of the Heisenberg model on bilayer lattices with up to approximately 10^5 spins, are in good agreement with the proposed scaling structure. We determine the exponent eta'=0.40 +/- 0.02, which governs both the staggered and uniform magnetic structure away from the impurity and also controls the impurity spin dynamics.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0611418,
  title  = {Impurity induced spin texture in quantum critical 2D antiferromagnets},
  author = {Kaj H. Hoglund and Anders W. Sandvik and Subir Sachdev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0611418},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures. Published version

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