Protecting clean critical points by local disorder correlations

Details Protecting clean critical points by local disorder correlations Protecting clean critical points by local disorder correlations

2010-10-31

arxiv.org/abs/1011.0182v2

Europhys. Lett. 93, 30004 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

5 pages, 3 figures; published version

Scientific paper

10.1209/0295-5075/93/30004

We show that a broad class of quantum critical points can be stable against locally correlated disorder even if they are unstable against uncorrelated disorder. Although this result seemingly contradicts the Harris criterion, it follows naturally from the absence of a random-mass term in the associated order-parameter field theory. We illustrate the general concept with explicit calculations for quantum spin-chain models. Instead of the infinite-randomness physics induced by uncorrelated disorder, we find that weak locally correlated disorder is irrelevant. For larger disorder, we find a line of critical points with unusual properties such as an increase of the entanglement entropy with the disorder strength. We also propose experimental realizations in the context of quantum magnetism and cold-atom physics.

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