Quantum field theory solution for a short-range interacting SO(3) quantum spin-glass

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2009.02.023zbMATH Open1196.82123arXiv0903.0305OpenAlexW1964605920MaRDI QIDQ1960056FDOQ1960056

E. C. Marino, C. M. S. Da Conceição

Publication date: 12 October 2010

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the quenched disordered magnetic system, which is obtained from the 2D SO(3) quantum Heisenberg model, on a square lattice, with nearest neighbors interaction, by taking a Gaussian random distribution of couplings centered in an antiferromagnetic coupling, $$ and with a width $DeltaJ$. Using coherent spin states we can integrate over the random variables and map the system onto a field theory, which is a generalization of the SO(3) nonlinear sigma model with different flavors corresponding to the replicas, coupling parameter proportional to $$ and having a quartic spin interaction proportional to the disorder ($DeltaJ$). After deriving the CP${}^1$ version of the system, we perform a calculation of the free energy density in the limit of zero replicas, which fully includes the quantum fluctuations of the CP${}^1$ fields $z_i$. We, thereby obtain the phase diagram of the system in terms of ($$). This presents an ordered antiferromagnetic (AF) phase, a paramagnetic (PM) phase and a spin-glass (SG) phase. A critical curve separating the PM and SG phases ends at a quantum critical point located between the AF and SG phases, at T=0. The Edwards-Anderson order parameter, as well as the magnetic susceptibilities are explicitly obtained in each of the three phases as a function of the three control parameters. The magnetic susceptibilities show a Curie-type behavior at high temperatures and exhibit a clear cusp, characteristic of the SG transition, at the transition line. The thermodynamic stability of the phases is investigated by a careful analysis of the Hessian matrix of the free energy. We show that all principal minors of the Hessian are positive in the limit of zero replicas, implying in particular that the SG phase is stable.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.0305

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zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear sigma modelantiferromagnetic couplingmagnetic susceptibilitiesEdwards-Anderson order parameternearest neighbors interaction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coherent states (81R30) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Statistical mechanics of magnetic materials (82D40) Statistical mechanics of semiconductors (82D37)

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