Anomalous Curie response of impurities in quantum-critical spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnets

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2007-01-19

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0701472v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 027205 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

4 pages, 4 figures. v2: minor changes, published version

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We consider a magnetic impurity in two different S=1/2 Heisenberg bilayer antiferromagnets at their respective critical inter-layer couplings separating N'eel and disordered ground states. We calculate the impurity susceptibility using a quantum Monte Carlo method. With intra-layer couplings in only one of the layers (Kondo lattice), we observe an anomalous Curie constant C*, as predicted on the basis of field-theoretical work [S. Sachdev et al., Science 286, 2479 (1999)]. The value C*=0.262 +/- 0.002 is larger than the normal Curie constant C=S(S+1)/3. Our low-temperature results for the symmetric bilayer are consistent with a universal C*.

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