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Percolation Transition in Quantum Ising and Rotor Models with Sub-Ohmic Dissipation
Physical review B: Condensed matter and materials physics
  • Manal Al-Ali
  • Jose Abel Hoyos
  • Thomas Vojta, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Abstract

We investigate the influence of sub-Ohmic dissipation on randomly diluted quantum Ising and rotor models. The dissipation causes the quantum dynamics of sufficiently large percolation clusters to freeze completely. As a result, the zero-temperature quantum phase transition across the lattice percolation threshold separates an unusual super-paramagnetic cluster phase from an inhomogeneous ferromagnetic phase. We determine the low-temperature thermodynamic behavior in both phases, which is dominated by large frozen and slowly fluctuating percolation clusters. We relate our results to the smeared transition scenario for disordered quantum phase transitions, and we compare the cases of sub-Ohmic, Ohmic, and super-Ohmic dissipation.

Department(s)
Physics
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2012 American Physical Society (APS), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
8-1-2012
Publication Date
01 Aug 2012
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Citation Information
Manal Al-Ali, Jose Abel Hoyos and Thomas Vojta. "Percolation Transition in Quantum Ising and Rotor Models with Sub-Ohmic Dissipation" Physical review B: Condensed matter and materials physics Vol. 86 Iss. 7 (2012) p. 075119-1 - 075119-8 ISSN: 1098-0121
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/thomas-vojta/108/