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Deconfined quantum critical points (DQCPs) have been proposed as a class of continuous quantum phase transitions occurring between two ordered phases with distinct symmetry-breaking patterns, beyond the conventional framework of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-23 Yi Cui , Rong Yu , Weiqiang Yu

Deconfined quantum critical points (DQCPs) represent an unconventional class of quantum criticality beyond the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson-Fisher paradigm. Nevertheless, both their theoretical identification and experimental realization remain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Guangyu Yu , Tao Xiang , Zheng Zhu

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…

Deconfined quantum critical point (DQCP) describes direct, non-fine-tuned quantum phase transition between two ordered phases that break distinct and seemingly unrelated symmetries, providing a route to continuous phase transition beyond…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-18 Zhi-Qiang Gao , Hui Yang , Yan-Qi Wang

Deconfined quantum critical points (DQCPs) are putative phase transitions beyond the Landau paradigm with emergent fractionalized degrees of freedom. The original example of a DQCP is the spin-1/2 quantum antiferromagnet on the square…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-17 David Hofmeier , Josef Willsher , Urban F. P. Seifert , Johannes Knolle

The deconfined quantum critical point (DQCP) -- the enigmatic incarnation of the quantum phase transition beyond the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson paradigm of symmetries and their spontaneous breaking -- has been proposed and actively pursued for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-02 Yuan Da Liao , Gaopei Pan , Weilun Jiang , Yang Qi , Zi Yang Meng

The deconfined quantum critical point (DQCP) represents a paradigm shift in quantum matter studies, presenting a "beyond Landau" scenario for order--order transitions. Its experimental realization, however, has remained elusive. Using…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-19 Yi Cui , Lu Liu , Huihang Lin , Kai-Hsin Wu , Wenshan Hong , Xuefei Liu , Cong Li , Ze Hu , Ning Xi , Shiliang Li , Rong Yu , Anders W. Sandvik , Weiqiang Yu

Deconfined quantum critical point (DQCP) characterizes the continuous transition beyond Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson paradigm, occurring between two phases that exhibit distinct symmetry breaking. The debate over whether genuine DQCP exists in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-06 Xuan Zou , Shuai Yin , Zi-Xiang Li , Hong Yao

We perform a numerical study of a spin-1/2 model with $\mathbb{Z}_2 \times \mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry in one dimension which demonstrates an interesting similarity to the physics of two-dimensional deconfined quantum critical points (DQCP).…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-08 Brenden Roberts , Shenghan Jiang , Olexei I. Motrunich

From the perspective of low-lying excited states, we study the deconfined quantum critical point (DQCP) in a one-dimensional quantum spin chain by means of the entanglement entropy and fidelity. Our results show that there is a close…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-08 Yan-Chao Li , Yuan-Hang Zhou , Yuan Zhang , Hai-Qing Lin

The deconfined quantum critical point (QCP), separating the N\'eel and valence bond solid phases in a 2D antiferromagnet, was proposed as an example of $2+1$D criticality fundamentally different from standard Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson-Fisher…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-27 Chong Wang , Adam Nahum , Max A. Metlitski , Cenke Xu , T. Senthil

We construct an exactly solvable lattice model for a deconfined quantum critical point (DQCP) in (1+1) dimensions. This DQCP occurs in an unusual setting, namely at the edge of a (2+1) dimensional bosonic symmetry protected topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-07 Carolyn Zhang , Michael Levin

The deconfined quantum critical point (DQCP) was originally proposed as a continuous transition between two spontaneous symmetry breaking phases in 2D spin-1/2 systems. While great efforts have been spent on the DQCP for 2D systems, both…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-23 Rui-Zhen Huang , Da-Chuan Lu , Yi-Zhuang You , Zi Yang Meng , Tao Xiang

The deconfined quantum critical point (DQCP) between the N\'{e}el and valence bond solid (VBS) order was originally proposed in quantum spin systems with a local Hamiltonian. In the last few years analogues of DQCPs with nonlocal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-19 Yichen Xu , Xiao-Chuan Wu , Cenke Xu

Deconfined quantum criticality describes continuous phase transitions that are not captured by the Landau-Ginzburg paradigm. Here, we investigate deconfined quantum critical points in the long-range, anisotropic Heisenberg chain. With…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-26 Anton Romen , Stefan Birnkammer , Michael Knap

Continuous quantum phase transitions that are beyond the conventional paradigm of fluctuations of a symmetry breaking order parameter are challenging for theory. These phase transitions often involve emergent deconfined gauge fields at the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-29 Zhen Bi , T. Senthil

We first propose a topological term that captures the "intertwinement" between the standard "$\sqrt{3} \times \sqrt{3}$" antiferromagnetic order (or the so-called 120$^\circ$ state) and the "$\sqrt{12}\times \sqrt{12}$" valence solid bond…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-16 Chao-Ming Jian , Alex Thomson , Alex Rasmussen , Zhen Bi , Cenke Xu

Bulk topology and criticality can both lead to nontrivial boundary effects. Topological orders are often characterized by their robust edge states, while bulk critical points can have different boundary scalings governed by boundary…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-30 Nayan Myerson-Jain , Xiao-Chuan Wu , Cenke Xu

The theory of deconfined quantum critical points describes phase transitions at temperature T = 0 outside the standard paradigm, predicting continuous transformations between certain ordered states where conventional theory requires…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-28 Hui Shao , Wenan Guo , Anders W. Sandvik

Deconfined quantum critical points (DQCP) have attracted lots of attentions in the past decades, but were mainly restricted to incompressible phases. On the other hand, various experimental puzzles call for new theory of unconventional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-15 Xiaofan Wu , Hui Yang , Ya-Hui Zhang
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