Criticality in the 2+1-dimensional compact Higgs model and fractionalized insulators

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2002-07-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0207501v2

Phys.Rev.Lett. 89 (2002) 226403

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

4 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.226403

We use a novel method of computing the third moment M_3 of the action of the 2+1-dimensional compact Higgs model in the adjoint representation with q=2 to extract correlation length and specific heat exponents nu and alpha, without invoking hyperscaling. Finite-size scaling analysis of M_3 yields the ratio (1+alpha)/nu and 1/nu separately. We find that alpha and nu vary along the critical line of the theory, which however exhibits a remarkable resilience of Z_2 criticality. We propose this novel universality class to be that of the quantum phase transition from a Mott-Hubbard insulator to a charge-fractionalized insulator in two spatial dimensions.

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