Interplay of quantum and thermal fluctuations in a frustrated magnet

Details Interplay of quantum and thermal fluctuations in a frustrated magnet Interplay of quantum and thermal fluctuations in a frustrated magnet

2003-02-05

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0302105v1

Phys. Rev. B 68, 104409 (2003)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

9 pages, revtex4

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.68.104409

We demonstrate the presence of an extended critical phase in the transverse field Ising magnet on the triangular lattice, in a regime where both thermal and quantum fluctuations are important. We map out a complete phase diagram by means of quantum Monte Carlo simulations, and find that the critical phase is the result of thermal fluctuations destabilising an order established by the quantum fluctuations. It is separated by two Kosterlitz-Thouless transitions from the paramagnet on one hand and the quantum-fluctuation driven three-sublattice ordered phase on the other. Our work provides further evidence that the zero temperature quantum phase transition is in the 3d XY universality class.

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