Finite-Temperature Transition in the Spin-Dimer Antiferromagnet BaCuSi2O6

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2010-03-08

arxiv.org/abs/1003.1641v1

J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 78, 094008 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

16 pages, 7 figures

Scientific paper

10.1143/JPSJ.78.094008

We consider a classical XY-like Hamiltonian on a body-centered tetragonal lattice, focusing on the role of interlayer frustration. A three-dimensional (3D) ordered phase is realized via thermal fluctuations, breaking the mirror-image reflection symmetry in addition to the XY symmetry. A heuristic field-theoretical model of the transition has a decoupled fixed point in the 3D XY universality, and our Monte Carlo simulation suggests that there is such a temperature region where long-wavelength fluctuations can be described by this fixed point. However, it is shown using scaling arguments that the decoupled fixed point is unstable against a fluctuation-induced biquadratic interaction, indicating that a crossover to nontrivial critical phenomena with different exponents appears as one approaches the critical point beyond the transient temperature region. This new scenario clearly contradicts the previous notion of the 3D XY universality.

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