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arXiv 2001.00586cond-mat.str-elcond-mat.supr-con
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O(3)对称反铁磁量子临界金属能级结构的Monte Carlo研究

Hierarchy of energy scales in an O(3) symmetric antiferromagnetic quantum critical metal: a Monte Carlo study

Carsten Bauer, Yoni Schattner, Simon Trebst, Erez Berg

摘要:

本文给出了自旋费米子模型在$O(3)$对称反铁磁(AFM)量子临界点附近的无符号量子蒙特卡罗模拟的精确结果。我们发现在量子临界点附近出现了一系列的能量尺度。在高能尺度下,存在一个宽的区域,其特征在于具有动力学临界指数$z=2$的朗道阻尼序参量动力学,而费米子激发保持相干。量子临界磁涨落是很好地描述了赫兹-米利斯理论,除了一个$T^{-2}$发散的静态AFM磁化率。这种状态持续到较低的能量尺度,在那里费米子变得过阻尼,并且伴随着,发生到$d-$波超导状态的转变。这些研究结果类似于早期的自旋费米子模型与易平面AFM波动的$O(2)$ SDW序参量的结果,尽管两个理论的微扰结构的显着差异。在$O(3)$的情况下,预计对自旋费米子顶点的微扰校正在附加能量标度下占主导地位,低于该能量标度,$z=2$行为崩溃,导致在热点处具有涌现的局部嵌套的新的$z=1$固定点[Schlief等人,PRX 7,021010(2017)]。受此预测的启发,我们还考虑了模型的一个变体,其中热点几乎是局部嵌套的。在我们的研究($T\ge E_F/200$)中的可用温度范围内,我们发现与$z=2$ Hertz-Millis行为存在实质性偏差,但没有证据表明预测的$z=1$临界性。

英文摘要:

We present numerically exact results from sign-problem free quantum Monte Carlo simulations for a spin-fermion model near an $O(3)$ symmetric antiferromagnetic (AFM) quantum critical point. We find a hierarchy of energy scales that emerges near the quantum critical point. At high energy scales, there is a broad regime characterized by Landau-damped order parameter dynamics with dynamical critical exponent $z=2$, while the fermionic excitations remain coherent. The quantum critical magnetic fluctuations are well described by Hertz-Millis theory, except for a $T^{-2}$ divergence of the static AFM susceptibility. This regime persists down to a lower energy scale, where the fermions become overdamped and concomitantly, a transition into a $d-$wave superconducting state occurs. These findings resemble earlier results for a spin-fermion model with easy-plane AFM fluctuations of an $O(2)$ SDW order parameter, despite noticeable differences in the perturbative structure of the two theories. In the $O(3)$ case, perturbative corrections to the spin-fermion vertex are expected to dominate at an additional energy scale, below which the $z=2$ behavior breaks down, leading to a novel $z=1$ fixed point with emergent local nesting at the hot spots [Schlief et al., PRX 7, 021010 (2017)]. Motivated by this prediction, we also consider a variant of the model where the hot spots are nearly locally nested. Within the available temperature range in our study ($T\ge E_F/200$), we find substantial deviations from the $z=2$ Hertz-Millis behavior, but no evidence for the predicted $z=1$ criticality.

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