On bipartite Rokhsar-Kivelson points and Cantor deconfinement

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2003-11-14

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311353v4

Phys. Rev. B 69, 224415 (2004)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

9 pages; expanded version to appear in Phys. Rev. B; presentation improved

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.69.224415

Quantum dimer models on bipartite lattices exhibit Rokhsar-Kivelson (RK) points with exactly known critical ground states and deconfined spinons. We examine generic, weak, perturbations around these points. In d=2+1 we find a first order transition between a ``plaquette'' valence bond crystal and a region with a devil's staircase of commensurate and incommensurate valence bond crystals. In the part of the phase diagram where the staircase is incomplete, the incommensurate states exhibit a gapless photon and deconfined spinons on a set of finite measure, almost but not quite a deconfined phase in a compact U(1) gauge theory in d=2+1! In d=3+1 we find a continuous transition between the U(1) resonating valence bond (RVB) phase and a deconfined staggered valence bond crystal. In an appendix we comment on analogous phenomena in quantum vertex models, most notably the existence of a continuous transition on the triangular lattice in d=2+1.

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