Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2009-04-01
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 045701 (2010)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
added supplementary material; changes throughout the manuscript (to appear in Phys. Rev. Letters)
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.045701
We study the phase transition between the Coulomb liquid and the columnar crystal in the 3D classical dimer model, which was found to be continuous in the O(3) universality class. In addition to nearest neighbor interactions which favor parallel dimers, further neighbor interactions are allowed in such a manner that the cubic symmetry of the original system remains intact. We show that the transition in the presence of weak additional, symmetry preserving interactions is first-order. However the universality class of the transition remains continuous when the additional interactions are weakly repulsive. In this way, we verify the existence of a multicritical point near the unperturbed transition and we identify a critical line of unconventional transitions between the Coulomb liquid phase and the $6-$fold columnar phase.
Betouras Joseph J.
Papanikolaou Stefanos
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