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We determine the pre-asymptotic critical behavior at the quantum ferromagnetic transition in strongly disordered metals. We find that it is given by effective power laws, in contrast to the previously analyzed asymptotic critical behavior,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-16 T. R. Kirkpatrick , D. Belitz

Zero-temperature or quantum phase transitions in itinerant electronic systems both with and without quenched disordered are discussed. Phase transitions considered include, the ferromagnetic transition, the antiferromagnetic transition, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-03 T. R. Kirkpatrick , D. Belitz

We isolated flux disorder effects on the transport at the critical point of the quantum magnetic field tuned Superconductor to Insulator transition (BSIT). The experiments employed films patterned into geometrically disordered hexagonal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-10-16 H. Q. Nguyen , S. M. Hollen , J. Shainline , J. M. Xu , J. M. Valles

We present results of a numerical mean field treatment of interacting spins and carriers in doped diluted magnetic semiconductors, which takes into account the positional disorder present in these alloy systems. Disorder is found to enhance…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Mona Berciu , R. N. Bhatt

We have explored the critical metal-insulator phenomena for pyrochlore-type $R_2$Ir$_2$O$_7$, in which electron correlation strength and magnetic configuration are systematically controlled by varying the average rare-earth ionic radius…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-28 K. Ueda , J. Fujioka , C. Terakura , Y. Tokura

The quantum ferromagnetic transition of itinerant electrons is considered. We give a pedagogical review of recent results which show that zero-temperature soft modes that are commonly neglected, invalidate the standard…

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

The low temperature behavior of Pr$_{1-x}$Ca$_{x}$MnO$_{3}$ manganites are known to undergo a transition at $x\sim$0.3, from an insulating ferromagnetic state, at low Ca concentration, to an insulating antiferromagnetic state. Above the…

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 present a study of the influence of disorder on the Mott metal-insulator transition for the organic charge-transfer salt $\kappa$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$Cu[N(CN)$_2$]Cl. To this end, disorder was introduced into the system in a controlled way by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-17 Elena Gati , Ulrich Tutsch , Ammar Naji , Markus Garst , Sebastian Köhler , Harald Schubert , Takahiko Sasaki , Michael Lang

We give a minimal holographic model of a disorder-driven metal-insulator transition. It consists in a CFT with a charge sector and a translation-breaking sector that interact in the most generic way allowed by the symmetries and by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 Matteo Baggioli , Oriol Pujolas

The conductivity and the tunneling density of states of disordered itinerant electrons in the vicinity of a ferromagnetic transition at low temperature are discussed. Critical fluctuations lead to nonanalytic frequency and temperature…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Belitz , T. R. Kirkpatrick , R. Narayanan , Thomas Vojta

In the most popular approach to the numerical study of the Anderson metal-insulator transition the transfer matrix method is combined with finite-size scaling ideas. This approach requires large computer resources to overcome the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Alex P Taylor , Angus MacKinnon

Influence of disorder on the ferromagnetic phase transition in diluted (III,Mn)V semiconductors is investigated analytically. The regime of small disorder is addressed, and the enhancement of the critical temperature by disorder is found…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 A. L. Chudnovskiy , D. Pfannkuche

We analyze here the behavior near the 2D insulator-superconductor quantum critical point in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. We show that with increasing field $H$, the quantum disordered and quantum critical regimes, in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Denis Dalidovich , Philip Phillips

Strong disorder has a crucial effect on the electronic structure in quantum materials by increasing localization, interactions, and modifying the density of states. Bi$_x$TeI films grown at room temperature and \SI{230}{K} exhibit dramatic…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-06 Paul Corbae , Nicolai Taufertshöfer , Ellis Kennedy , Mary Scott , Frances Hellman

The structural, electrical transport and magnetic properties of perovskite oxides La1-xTexMnO3 have been investigated and thus the magnetic phase diagram of La1-xTexMnO3 compounds as a function of temperature and the doping level x has been…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Yang , W. H. Song , Y. Q. Ma , R. L. Zhang , B. C. Zhao , Z. G. Sheng , G. H. Zheng , J. M. Dai , Y. P. Sun

The effects of quenched disorder on the critical properties of itinerant quantum magnets are considered. Particular attention is paid to locally ordered rare regions that are formed in the presence of quenched disorder even when the bulk…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Narayanan , Thomas Vojta , D. Belitz , T. R. Kirkpatrick

This review gives an overview of the quantum phase transition (QPT) problem in metallic ferromagnets, discussing both experimental and theoretical aspects. These QPTs can be classified with respect to the presence and strength of quenched…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-02 M. Brando , D. Belitz , F. M. Grosche , T. R. Kirkpatrick

We report the observation of a magnetic-field-induced transition between magnetically disordered and ordered phases in slightly under-doped La(2-x)SrxCuO4 with x=0.144. Static incommensurate spin-density-wave order is induced above a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-04-12 B. Khaykovich , S. Wakimoto , R. J. Birgeneau , M. A. Kastner , Y. S. Lee , P. Smeibidl , P. Vorderwisch , K. Yamada

Two-dimensional ferromagnetic electron gases subject to random scalar potentials and Rashba spin-orbit interactions exhibit a striking quantum criticality. As disorder strength $W$ increases, the systems undergo a transition from a normal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-11 Weiwei Chen , C. Wang , Qinwei Shi , Qunxiang Li , X. R. Wang