High precision measurements of quantum critical properties for 3D quantum antiferromagnets

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Abstract

Using large-scale quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations, we study the quantum phase transitions in three-dimensional S=1/2 dimerized Heisenberg antiferromagnets. We obtain high precision results on the quantum critical properties of the transition from antiferromagnetically ordered phase to the magnetically disordered dimerized phase. With careful finite size scaling analysis and improved estimator of physical observables in the QMC simulations, we are able to extract the precise logarithmic corrections to quantum phase transition in our system governed by the 3+1 O(3) universality class. Finite temperature quantum critical properties in excitation spectra are obtained as well.

Authors

  • Zi Yang Meng

    Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

  • Yan Qi Qing

    Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • Bruce Normand

    Renmin University

  • Anders Sandvik

    Boston University