Critical behavior of the site diluted quantum anisotropic Heisenberg model in two dimensions

L.S. Lima, A.S.T. Pires and B.V. Costa

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2015, vol. 438, issue C, 579-585

Abstract: In this work we use the Self Consistent Harmonic Approximation and Quantum Monte Carlo technique to study the Quantum XY on a two dimensional square lattice in the presence of nonmagnetic impurities. In particular we discuss how site disorder changes the Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition temperature, TBKT. This temperature is determined as a function of the nonmagnetic density. Our results are consistent with an anomalous behavior of TBKT at a concentration close to the site percolation threshold. We interpret the results as due to a competition between the confining of vortices and quantum fluctuations, or due to finite size effects.

Keywords: Quantum phase transition; BKT transition; Anisotropic; Quantum Monte Carlo; Self consistent harmonic approaximation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2015.06.029

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