Effects of dissipation on quantum phase transitions
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2009-10-31 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons
Abstract
We discuss the effect of dissipation on quantum phase transitions. In particular we concentrate on the Superconductor to Insulator and Quantum-Hall to Insulator transitions. By invoking a phenomenological parameter to describe the coupling of the system to a continuum of degrees of freedom representing the dissipative bath, we obtain new phase diagrams for the quantum Hall and superconductor-insulator problems. Our main result is that, in two-dimensions, the metallic phases observed in finite magnetic fields (possibly also strictly zero field) are adiabatically deformable from one to the other. This is plausible, as there is no broken symmetry which differentiates them.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0009201,
title = {Effects of dissipation on quantum phase transitions},
author = {Aharon Kapitulnik and Nadya Mason and Steven A. Kivelson and Sudip Chakravarty},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0009201},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
13 pages, 4 figures