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Ginzburg-Landau-Wilson Aspects of Deconfined Criticality
Physics Department Faculty Publication Series
  • A Kuklov
  • Nikolai Prokof'ev, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
  • Boris Svistunov, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Publication Date
2005
Abstract

Monte Carlo study of the deconfined critical action phase diagram reveals a region where spinon deconfinement occurs through a weak first-order phase transition, in agreement with Ginzburg- Landau theory. Wilson renormalization argument in combination with the absence of the data collapse even in the regime of weak interaction between the spinons casts a serious doubt on the possibility of the continuous deconfinement transition. We also argue that if a continuous deconfined criticality does exist on the phase diagram, its nature is analogous, in a certain precise sense, to that of the XY universality class

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A Kuklov, Nikolai Prokof'ev and Boris Svistunov. "Ginzburg-Landau-Wilson Aspects of Deconfined Criticality" (2005)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/nikolai_prokofev/33/