Zero-temperature Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in a two-dimensional quantum system (Q875304)

In the paper an interacting quantum dimer model with a Hamiltonian obeying a Stochastic Matrix Form decomposition is considered. This allows to define an associated classical system whose thermodynamic equilibrium correlation function reflects the behavior of some equaltime ground state (GS) expectation values. Using this correspondence the authors showed that the quantum system exhibits a line of quantum critical points that separates two ordered GS of the valence bond crystal type. The robustness of line of critical points to the introduction of longer-range-yet finite-dimer-dimer interactions are studied. In particular it is showed how, for some choice of the additional interaction, one can tune the width of the line of critical points until it gradually collapses onto a single, tricritical point, where the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition and first-order transition meet. Qualitatively the zero-temperature phase diagram of the quantum dilute dimer model is derived.