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The interpretation of the magnetic phase diagrams of strongly correlated electron systems remains controversial. In particular, the physics of quantum phase transitions, which occur at zero temperature, is still enigmatic. Heavy-fermion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-11-08 W. Knafo , S. Raymond , P. Lejay , J. Flouquet

Employing the self-learning quantum Monte Carlo algorithm, we investigate the frustrated transverse-field triangle-lattice Ising model coupled to a Fermi surface. Without fermions, the spin degrees of freedom undergoes a second-order…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-17 Zi Hong Liu , Xiao Yan Xu , Yang Qi , Kai Sun , Zi Yang Meng

The quantum ferromagnetic transition at zero temperature in disordered itinerant electron systems is considered. Nonmagnetic quenched disorder leads to diffusive electron dynamics that induces an effective long-range interaction between the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 T. R. Kirkpatrick , D. Belitz

We study the critical behavior driven by potential quantum critical points (QCPs) termed as $\tau_{0,x,y,z}$-Type QCPs in the $d$-wave cuprate superconductors. Within the framework of the renormalization group approach, we construct the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-29 Qi-Qi Yue , Yi-Sheng Fu , Jing Wang

Upon application of an external tuning parameter, a magnetic state can be driven to a normal metal state at zero temperature. This phenomenon is known as quantum criticality and leads to fascinating responses in thermodynamics and transport…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-07-04 K. B. Efetov , H. Meier , C. Pépin

Fluctuations can drive continuous phase transitions between two distinct ordered phases -- so-called deconfined quantum critical points (DQCPs) -- which lie beyond the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson paradigm. Despite several theoretical predictions…

Two different scenarios of the quantum critical point (QCP), a zero-temperature instability of the Landau state, related to the divergence of the effective mass, are investigated. Flaws of the standard scenario of the QCP, where this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 V. A. Khodel

We study the stability of the Quantum Critical Point (QCP) for itinerant ferromagnets commonly described by the Hertz-Millis-Moriya (HMM) theory. We argue that in $D \leq 3$, long-range spatial correlations associated with the Landau…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-04-04 Andrey V. Chubukov , Catherine Pépin , Jerome Rech

Recent experiments in unconventional superconductors, and in particular iron-based materials, have reported evidence of an antiferromagnetic quantum critical point (AFM-QCP) emerging inside the superconducting dome of the phase diagram.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-21 Vanuildo S. de Carvalho , Andrey V. Chubukov , Rafael M. Fernandes

Quantum criticality is the intriguing possibility offered by the laws of quantum mechanics when the wave function of a many-particle physical system is forced to evolve continuously between two distinct, competing ground states. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-18 Nicolas Roch , Serge Florens , Vincent Bouchiat , Wolfgang Wernsdorfer , Franck Balestro

The quantum critical point (QCP) in $YbRh_{2}Si_{2}$ is an enigma for the itinerant view of QCP. In an alternative view, this QCP is intimately linked to the selective Mott localization of the heavy $f$ electrons. Following a perusal of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-25 M. S. Laad

The anomalous transport and thermodynamic properties in the quantum-critical region, in the cuprates, and in the quasi-two dimensional Fe-based superconductors and heavy-fermion compounds, have the same temperature dependences. This can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-07-27 Chandra M. Varma

Anomalous metallic properties are often observed in the proximity of quantum critical points (QCPs), with violation of the Fermi Liquid paradigm. We propose a scenario where, due to the presence of a nearby QCP, dynamical fluctuations of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-23 S. Caprara , C. Di Castro , G. Mirarchi , G. Seibold , M. Grilli

Quantum criticality is the intriguing possibility offered by the laws of quantum mechanics when the wave function of a many-particle physical system is forced to evolve continuously between two distinct, competing ground states. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nicolas Roch , Serge Florens , Vincent Bouchiat , Wolfgang Wernsdorfer , Franck Balestro

Quantum critical points (QCPs), zero-temperature phase transitions, are windows to fundamental quantum-mechanical phenomena associated with universal behaviour and can provide parallels to the physics of black holes. Magnetic QCPs have been…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-01 Soohyeon Shin , Aline Ramires , Vladimir Pomjakushin , Igor Plokhikh , Ekaterina Pomjakushina

In low-temperature metallic magnets, ferromagnetic (FM) and antiferromagnetic (AFM) orders can exist in a single system in different parts of the phase diagram as a function of some control parameter. These phases can be adjacent, or exist…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-03 D. Belitz , T. R. Kirkpatrick

Considerable evidence exists for the failure of the traditional theory of quantum critical points (QCPs), pointing to the need to incorporate novel excitations. The destruction of Kondo entanglement and the concomitant critical Kondo effect…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefan Kirchner , Lijun Zhu , Qimiao Si , D. Natelson

Electronic nematicity, proposed to exist in a number of transition metal materials, can have different microscopic origins. In particular, the anisotropic resistivity and meta-magnetic jumps observed in Sr3Ru2O7 are consistent with an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-28 Christoph M. Puetter , Sylvia D. Swiecicki , Hae-Young Kee

The presence of a quantum critical point (QCP) can significantly affect the thermodynamic properties of a material at finite temperatures T. This is reflected, e.g., in the entropy landscape S(T, r) in the vicinity of a QCP, yielding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-20 B. Wolf , Y. Tsui , D. Jaiswal-Nagar , U. Tutsch , A. Honecker , K. Removic-Langer , G. Hofmann , A. Prokofiev , W. Assmus , G. Donath , M. Lang

We show that quantum fluctuations display a singularity at thermal critical points, involving the dynamical $z$ exponent. Quantum fluctuations, captured by the quantum variance (I. Fr\'erot and T. Roscilde, Phys. Rev. B 94, 075121 (2016)),…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-31 Irénée Frérot , Adam Rançon , Tommaso Roscilde