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Novel antiferromagnetic quantum phase transition in underdoped cuprates

Superconductivity 2007-05-23 v3 Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We investigate a zero-temperature itinerant antiferromagnetic transition where the fermions possess a d-wave gap. This problem pertains to both the nodal liquid insulating phase and the d-wave superconducting phase of the underdoped cuprates. We find that a non-trivial quantum phase transition exists, and that the quantum critical point is dominated by a long-ranged interaction (xy2d|x-y|^{-2d}) of the N\'{e}el order parameter, which is induced by the Dirac-like fermions near gap nodes. We formulate a Ginzburg-Landau functional and estimate the critical exponents via the large-N expansion method.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9901208,
  title  = {Novel antiferromagnetic quantum phase transition in underdoped cuprates},
  author = {Hyok-Jon Kwon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9901208},
  year   = {2007}
}

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RevTex 4 pages, 2 epsf figures. Corrected errors and added references