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Resummation of fluctuations near ferromagnetic quantum critical points

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2013-10-09 v3

Abstract

We present a detailed analysis of the non-analytic structure of the free energy for the itinerant ferromagnet near the quantum critical point in two and three dimensions. We analyze a model of electrons with an isotropic dispersion interacting through a contact repulsion. A fermionic version of the quantum order-by-disorder mechanism allows us to calculate the free energy as a functional of the dispersion in the presence of homogeneous and spiralling magnetic order. We re-sum the leading divergent contributions, to derive an algebraic expression for the non-analytic contribution to free energy from quantum fluctuations. Using a recursion which relates sub-leading divergences to the leading term, we calculate the full T=0 contribution in d=3d=3. We propose an interpolating functional form, which allows us to track phase transition lines at temperatures far below the tricritical point and down to T=0. In d=2d=2, quantum fluctuations are stronger and non-analyticities more severe. Using a similar re-summation approach, we find that despite the different non-analytic structures, the phase diagrams in two and three dimensions are remarkably similar, exhibiting an incommensurate spiral phase near to the avoided quantum critical point.

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@article{arxiv.1307.6739,
  title  = {Resummation of fluctuations near ferromagnetic quantum critical points},
  author = {C. J. Pedder and F. Krüger and A. G. Green},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.6739},
  year   = {2013}
}

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12 pages, 3 figures, 1 table