Quantum Phase Transition in the Four-Spin Exchange Antiferromagnet

Details Quantum Phase Transition in the Four-Spin Exchange Antiferromagnet Quantum Phase Transition in the Four-Spin Exchange Antiferromagnet

2007-04-02

arxiv.org/abs/0704.0114v3

Physical Review B 80, 174403 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

6 pages, 4 figures; published version

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.80.174403

We study the S=1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a square lattice with nearest-neighbor and plaquette four-spin exchanges (introduced by A.W. Sandvik, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 98}, 227202 (2007).) This model undergoes a quantum phase transition from a spontaneously dimerized phase to N\'eel order at a critical coupling. We show that as the critical point is approached from the dimerized side, the system exhibits strong fluctuations in the dimer background, reflected in the presence of a low-energy singlet mode, with a simultaneous rise in the triplet quasiparticle density. We find that both singlet and triplet modes of high density condense at the transition, signaling restoration of lattice symmetry. In our approach, which goes beyond mean-field theory in terms of the triplet excitations, the transition appears sharp; however since our method breaks down near the critical point, we argue that we cannot make a definite conclusion regarding the order of the transition.

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