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The deconfined quantum critical point (DQCP) is an example of phase transitions beyond the Landau symmetry breaking paradigm that attracts wide interest. However, its nature has not been settled after decades of study. In this paper, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-18 Zheng Zhou , Liangdong Hu , W. Zhu , Yin-Chen He

Novel critical phenomena beyond the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson paradigm have been long sought after. Among many candidate scenarios, the deconfined quantum critical point (DQCP) constitutes the most fascinating one, and its lattice model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-16 Bin-Bin Chen , Xu Zhang , Zi Yang Meng

Novel critical phenomena beyond the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson paradigm have been long sought after. Among many candidate scenarios, the deconfined quantum critical point (DQCP) constitutes the most fascinating one, and its lattice model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-22 Bin-Bin Chen , Xu Zhang , Yuxuan Wang , Kai Sun , Zi Yang Meng

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

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

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…

The infra-red behaviour of gauge theories coupled to matter remains an open problem in quantum field theory. For a given gauge group, such theories are expected to flow to an interacting conformal fixed point over a range of fermion or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-13 Emilie Huffman , Zheng Zhou , Yin-Chen He , Johannes S. Hofmann

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

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

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

Deconfined quantum critical points (DQCPs) are proposed as unconventional second-order phase transitions beyond the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson paradigm. The nature and experimental realizations of DQCPs are crucial issues of importance. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-27 Ya-Nan Wang , Wen-Long You , Wen-Yi Zhang , Su-Peng Kou , Gaoyong Sun

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 criticality with emergent SO(5) symmetry in correlated systems remains elusive. Here, by performing numerically-exact state-of-the-art quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations, we show convincing evidences of deconfined…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-26 Zi-Xiang Li , Shao-Kai Jian , Hong Yao

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

Recent numerical and theoretical studies on the two-dimensional $J$-$Q_3$ model suggests that the deconfined quantum critical point is actually a $SO(5)$-symmetry-enhanced first-order phase transition that is spontaneously broken to $O(4)$.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-15 Shutao Liu , Yan Liu , Chengkang Zhou , Zhe Wang , Jie Lou , Changle Liu , Zheng Yan , Yan Chen

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

Deconfined quantum criticality (DQC) arises from fractionalization of quasi-particles and leads to fascinating behaviors beyond the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson description of phase transitions. Here, we study the critical dynamics when driving a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-15 Yu-Rong Shu , Shao-Kai Jian , Anders W. Sandvik , Shuai Yin

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

We investigate the deconfined quantum critical point (DQCP) candidate in the extended hard-core Bose-Hubbard model on the kagome lattice, employing quantum Monte Carlo simulations to study the entanglement entropy and the $U(1)$ disorder…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-21 Yan-Cheng Wang , Yan Zheng , Xue-Feng Zhang

We study the critical scaling and dynamical signatures of fractionalized excitations at two different deconfined quantum critical points (DQCPs) in an $S = 1/2$ spin chain by using the time evolution of infinite matrix product states. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-04 Ning Xi , Rong Yu
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