Impurity spin texture at the critical point between Néel-ordered and valence-bond-solid states in two-dimensional SU(3) quantum antiferromagnets

Argha Banerjee, Kedar Damle, and Fabien Alet
Phys. Rev. B 83, 235111 – Published 7 June 2011

Abstract

We study the impurity physics at a continuous quantum phase transition from an SU(3) symmetric Néel-ordered state to a valence-bond-solid state that breaks lattice symmetries, using quantum Monte Carlo techniques. This continuous transition is expected to be an example of “deconfined criticality” in an SU(3) symmetric system. We find that the spin-texture induced by a missing-spin defect at the transition takes on a finite-size scaling form consistent with expectations from standard scaling arguments at a scale-invariant quantum critical point, albeit with significant subleading power-law finite size corrections that we analyze in detail. Together with recently found logarithmic violations of scaling at similar continuous transitions in the SU(2) case, our results provide indirect evidence of the existence of operators that become marginal as N is reduced to 2 in the field theoretical description of these deconfined critical points.

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  • Received 24 December 2010

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.83.235111

©2011 American Physical Society

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Argha Banerjee1, Kedar Damle1, and Fabien Alet2

  • 1Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 1, Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai 400005, India
  • 2Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Université de Toulouse, UPS, (IRSAMC), F-31062 Toulouse, France

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Vol. 83, Iss. 23 — 15 June 2011

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