Topological Excitations and their Contribution to Quantum Criticality in 2+1 D Antiferromagnets

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2006-11-14

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0611383v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

20 pages

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2006.10.024

It has been proposed that there are new degrees of freedom intrinsic to quantum critical points that contribute to quantum critical physics. We study 2+1 D antiferromagnets in order to explore possible new quantum critical physics arising from nontrivial topological effects. We show that skyrmion excitations are stable at criticality and have nonzero probability at arbitrarily low temperatures. To include quantum critical skyrmion effects, we find a class of exact solutions composed of skyrmion and antiskyrmion superpositions, which we call topolons. We include the topolons in the partition function and renormalize by integrating out small size topolons and short wavelength spin waves. We obtain a correlation length critical exponent nu=0.9297 and anomalous dimension eta=0.3381.

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