Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2010-01-29
Phys. Rev. B 82, 104416 (2010)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
9 pages, 6 figures, improved presentation, version to appear in Phys. Rev. B
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.82.104416
We introduce a generalized two-dimensional orbital compass model, which interpolates continuously from the classical Ising model to the orbital compass model with frustrated quantum interactions, and investigate it using the multiscale entanglement renormalization ansatz (MERA). The results demonstrate that increasing frustration of exchange interactions triggers a second order quantum phase transition to a degenerate symmetry broken state which minimizes one of the interactions in the orbital compass model. Using boson expansion within the spin-wave theory we unravel the physical mechanism of the symmetry breaking transition as promoted by weak quantum fluctuations and explain why this transition occurs only surprisingly close to the maximally frustrated interactions of the orbital compass model. The spin waves remain gapful at the critical point, and both the boson expansion and MERA do not find any algebraically decaying spin-spin correlations in the critical ground state.
Cincio Lukasz
Dziarmaga Jacek
Oles' Andrzej M.
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