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Deconfined quantum critical points are intriguing transition points not predicted by the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson symmetry-breaking paradigm which are usually identified by the appearance of a continuous phase transition between locally…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-08 Niccolò Baldelli , Arianna Montorsi , Sergi Julià-Farré , Maciej Lewenstein , Matteo Rizzi , Luca Barbiero

We study the entanglement properties of deconfined quantum critical points. We show not only that these critical points may be distinguished by their entanglement structure but also that they are in general more highly entangled that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-30 Brian Swingle , T. Senthil

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

Continuous phase transitions in equilibrium statistical mechanics were successfully described 50 years ago with the development of the renormalization group framework. This framework was initially developed in the context of phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-07 T. Senthil

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

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 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

Deconfined quantum critical points are characterized by the presence of an emergent gauge field and exotic fractionalized particles, which exist as well-defined excitations only at the critical point. We here demonstrate the existence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-12 Han Ma , Michael Pretko

The theory of second order phase transitions is one of the foundations of modern statistical mechanics and condensed matter theory. A central concept is the observable `order parameter', whose non-zero average value characterizes one or…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Senthil , Ashvin Vishwanath , Leon Balents , Subir Sachdev , M. P. A. Fisher

This article overviews the recent developments in applying the idea of deconfined quantum criticality in condensed matter physics to understand quantum phase transitions among grand unified theories in high energy physics in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-09 Yi-Zhuang You , Juven Wang

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

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 govern continuous quantum phase transitions at which fractionalized (deconfined) degrees of freedom emerge. Here we study dynamical signatures of the fractionalized excitations in a quantum magnet (the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-28 Nvsen Ma , Guang-Yu Sun , Yi-Zhuang You , Cenke Xu , Ashvin Vishwanath , Anders W. Sandvik , Zi Yang Meng

The spontaneous breaking of non-invertible symmetries can lead to exotic phenomena such as coexistence of order and disorder. Here we explore second-order phase transitions in 1d spin chains between two phases that correspond to distinct…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-12 Yu-Hsueh Chen , Tarun Grover

Monte Carlo study of the deconfined critical action phase diagram reveals a region where spinon deconfinement occurs through a weak first-order phase transition, in agreement with Ginzburg-Landau theory. Wilson renormalization argument in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anatoly Kuklov , Nikolay Prokof'ev , Boris Svistunov

We consider several types of quantum critical phenomena from finite-density gauge-gravity duality which to different degrees lie outside the Landau-Ginsburg-Wilson paradigm. These include: (1) a "bifurcating" critical point, for which the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-24 Nabil Iqbal , Hong Liu , Márk Mezei

Deconfined quantum critical point was proposed as a second-order quantum phase transition between two broken symmetry phases beyond the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson paradigm. However, numerical studies cannot completely rule out a weakly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-30 Gaoyong Sun , Bo-Bo Wei , Su-Peng Kou

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…

There is a number of contradictory findings with regard to whether the theory describing easy-plane quantum antiferromagnets undergoes a second-order phase transition. The traditional Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson approach suggests a first-order…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-28 Vira Shyta , Jeroen van den Brink , Flavio S. Nogueira
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