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Scaling at quantum phase transitions above the upper critical dimension

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2022-10-12 v2 Quantum Physics

Abstract

The hyperscaling relation and standard finite-size scaling (FSS) are known to break down above the upper critical dimension due to dangerous irrelevant variables. We establish a coherent formalism for FSS at quantum phase transitions above the upper critical dimension following the recently introduced Q-FSS formalism for thermal phase transitions. Contrary to long-standing belief, the correlation sector is affected by dangerous irrelevant variables. The presented formalism recovers a generalized hyperscaling relation and FSS form. Using this new FSS formalism, we determine the full set of critical exponents for the long-range transverse-field Ising chain in all criticality regimes ranging from the nearest-neighbor to the long-range mean field regime. For the same model, we also explicitly confirm the effect of dangerous irrelevant variables on the characteristic length scale.

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@article{arxiv.2203.08081,
  title  = {Scaling at quantum phase transitions above the upper critical dimension},
  author = {A. Langheld and J. A. Koziol and P. Adelhardt and S. C. Kapfer and K. P. Schmidt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.08081},
  year   = {2022}
}

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29 pages, 5 figures

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