Quantum phase transitions and dimensional reduction in antiferromagnets with inter-layer frustration

Details Quantum phase transitions and dimensional reduction in antiferromagnets with inter-layer frustration Quantum phase transitions and dimensional reduction in antiferromagnets with inter-layer frustration

2007-02-07

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0702157v2

Phys. Rev. B 76, 180401(R) (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

4 pages, 3 figs; (v2) final version as published

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.76.180401

For magnets with a fully frustrated inter-layer interaction, we argue that the quantum phase transitions from a paramagnetic to an antiferromagnetic ground state, driven by pressure or magnetic field, are asymptotically three-dimensional, due to interaction-generated non-frustrated inter-layer couplings. However, the relevant crossover scale is tiny, such that two-dimensional behavior occurs in an experimentally relevant low-temperature regime. In the pressure-driven case the phase transition may split, in which case an Ising symmetry related to inter-layer bond order is broken before magnetism occurs. We discuss the relation of our results to recent experiments on BaCuSi2O6.

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