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Universal critical temperature for Kosterlitz-Thouless transitions in bilayer quantum magnets

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2016-08-31 v3 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Lattice Computational Physics

Abstract

Recent experiments show that double layer quantum Hall systems may have a ground state with canted antiferromagnetic order. In the experimentally accessible vicinity of a quantum critical point, the order vanishes at a temperature T_{KT} = \kappa H, where H is the magnetic field and \kappa is a universal number determined by the interactions and Berry phases of the thermal excitations. We present quantum Monte Carlo simulations on a model spin system which support the universality of \kappa and determine its numerical value. This allows experimental tests of an intrinsically quantum-mechanical universal quantity, which is not also a property of a higher dimensional classical critical point.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9807393,
  title  = {Universal critical temperature for Kosterlitz-Thouless transitions in bilayer quantum magnets},
  author = {Matthias Troyer and Subir Sachdev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9807393},
  year   = {2016}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures