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Critical behaviour of a fluid, subjected to strongly anisotropic turbulent mixing, is studied by means of the field theoretic renormalization group. As a simplified model, relaxational stochastic dynamics of a non-conserved scalar order…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 N. V. Antonov , A. A. Ignatieva

The magnetic behaviors of a spin-1/2 alternating Heisenberg antiferromagnetic chain in a staggered transverse magnetic field is studied by means of the density-matrix renormalization group method and Jordan-Wigner transformation. Quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-04-07 Guang-Qiang Zhong , Shou-Shu Gong , Qing-Rong Zheng , Gang Su

Within the proper-time renormalization group approach, the chiral phase diagram of a two-flavor quark-meson model is studied. In the chiral limit, the location of the tricritical point which is linked to a Gaussian fixed point, is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Bernd-Jochen Schaefer , Jochen Wambach

We investigate the critical parameters of an order-disorder quantum phase transitions in the spin-1/2 $J-J'$ Heisenberg and XY antiferromagnets on square lattice. Basing on the excitation gaps calculated by exact diagonalization technique…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Piotr Tomczak , Johannes Richter

Simple symmetry considerations would suggest that the transition from the smectic-A phase to the long-range bond orientationally ordered hexatic smectic-B phase should belong to the XY universality class. However, a number of experimental…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Mohammad Kohandel , Michel J. P. Gingras , Josh P. Kemp

We study a continuous quasi-two-dimensional order-disorder phase transition that occurs in a simple model of a material that is inhomogeneously strained due to the presence of dislocation lines. Performing Monte Carlo simulations of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-09-15 Charo I. Del Genio , Kevin E. Bassler

The Anderson transitions in a random magnetic field in three dimensions are investigated numerically. The critical behavior near the transition point is analyzed in detail by means of the transfer matrix method with high accuracy for…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-09-27 T. Kawarabayashi , B. Kramer , T. Ohtsuki

We consider quantum Heisenberg ferro- and antiferromagnets on the square lattice with exchange anisotropy of easy-plane or easy-axis type. The thermodynamics and the critical behaviour of the models are studied by the pure-quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. Cuccoli , T. Roscilde , V. Tognetti , R. Vaia , P. Verrucchi

We investigate the magnetocrystalline anisotropy, critical behavior, and magnetocaloric effect in ferromagnetic-layered Cr$_2$Te$_3$. We have studied the critical behavior around the Curie temperature ($T_C$) using various techniques,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-26 Shubham Purwar , Tushar Kanti Bhowmik , Soumya Ghorai , Setti Thirupathaiah

We resolve the nature of the quantum phase transition between a N\'eel antiferromagnet and a valence-bond solid in two-dimensional spin-1/2 magnets. We study a class of $J$-$Q$ models, in which Heisenberg exchange $J$ competes with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-13 Jun Takahashi , Hui Shao , Bowen Zhao , Wenan Guo , Anders W. Sandvik

Recent experiments on a one-dimensional chain of trapped alkali atoms [arXiv:1707.04344] have observed a quantum transition associated with the onset of period-3 ordering of pumped Rydberg states. This spontaneous $\mathbb{Z}_3$ symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-14 Rhine Samajdar , Soonwon Choi , Hannes Pichler , Mikhail D. Lukin , Subir Sachdev

We calculate the relaxational dynamical critical behavior of systems of $O(n_\|)\oplus O(n_\perp)$ symmetry including conservation of magnetization by renormalization group (RG) theory within the minimal subtraction scheme in two loop…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Folk , Yu. Holovatch , G. Moser

In this work, we study a biquadratic Heisenberg model with coupled orbital degree of freedom using Monte Carlo simulation in order to investigate the phase transitions in iron-based superconductors. The antiferro-quadrupolar state, which…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-03-22 W. Z. Zhuo , M. H. Qin , S. Dong , X. G. Li , J. M. Liu

When a metal undergoes continuous quantum phase transition, the correlation length diverges at the critical point and the quantum fluctuation of order parameter behaves as a gapless bosonic mode. Generically, the coupling of this boson to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-22 Xin Li , Jing-Rong Wang , Guo-Zhu Liu

The order of the superconducting phase transition is a classical problem. Single-component type-2 superconductors exhibit a continuous "inverted-XY" phase transition, as was first demonstrated for U(1) lattice London superconductors by a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-03-03 Karl A. H. Sellin , Egor Babaev

The critical behavior at the special surface transition and crossover bevavior from special to ordinary surface transition in semi-infinite n-component anisotropic cubic models are investigated by applying the field theoretic approach…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Usatenko

It is shown that the phase transition in low-T_c clean itinerant ferromagnets is generically of first order, due to correlation effects that lead to a nonanalytic term in the free energy. A tricritical point separates the line of first…

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

The second order para-ferromagnetic phase transition in a series of amorphous alloys (Fe{_5}Co{_{50}}Ni{_{17-x}}Cr{_x}B{_{16}}Si{_{12}}) is investigated using nonlinear susceptibility. A simple molecular field treatment for the critical…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Sunil Nair , A. Banerjee

By means of high-resolution ultrasonic velocity measurements, as a function of temperature and magnetic field, the nature of the different low temperatures magnetic phase transitions observed for the quasi-one-dimensional compound CsNiCl3…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Quirion , X. Han , M. L. Plumer , M. Poirier

We present a functional renormalization group (FRG) analysis of a Landau-Ginzburg model of type-II superconductors (generalized to $n/2$ complex fields) in a magnetic field, both for a pure system, and in the presence of quenched random…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 M. A. Moore , T. J. Newman