TY - JOUR
T1 - Quantum Criticality of Antiferromagnetism and Superconductivity with Relativity
AU - Liu, Hanqing
AU - Huffman, Emilie
AU - Chandrasekharan, Shailesh
AU - Kaul, Ribhu K.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/3/18
Y1 - 2022/3/18
N2 - We study a quantum phase transition from a massless to massive Dirac fermion phase in a new two-dimensional bipartite lattice model of electrons that is amenable to sign-free quantum Monte Carlo simulations. Importantly, interactions in our model are not only invariant under SU(2) symmetries of spin and charge like the Hubbard model, but they also preserve an Ising-like electron spin-charge flip symmetry. From unbiased fermion bag Monte Carlo simulations with up to 2304 sites, we show that the massive fermion phase spontaneously breaks this Ising symmetry, picking either antiferromagnetism or superconductivity, and that the transition at which both orders are simultaneously quantum critical belongs to a new "chiral spin-charge symmetric"universality class. We explain our observations using effective potential and renormalization group calculations within the framework of a continuum field theory.
AB - We study a quantum phase transition from a massless to massive Dirac fermion phase in a new two-dimensional bipartite lattice model of electrons that is amenable to sign-free quantum Monte Carlo simulations. Importantly, interactions in our model are not only invariant under SU(2) symmetries of spin and charge like the Hubbard model, but they also preserve an Ising-like electron spin-charge flip symmetry. From unbiased fermion bag Monte Carlo simulations with up to 2304 sites, we show that the massive fermion phase spontaneously breaks this Ising symmetry, picking either antiferromagnetism or superconductivity, and that the transition at which both orders are simultaneously quantum critical belongs to a new "chiral spin-charge symmetric"universality class. We explain our observations using effective potential and renormalization group calculations within the framework of a continuum field theory.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.117202
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.117202
M3 - Article
C2 - 35363026
AN - SCOPUS:85127440850
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 128
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
IS - 11
M1 - 117202
ER -