DMRG study of the Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless transitions of the 2D five-state clock model

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2014/11/P11022zbMATH Open1456.82345arXiv1407.5955MaRDI QIDQ3301807FDOQ3301807

Christophe Chatelain

Publication date: 11 August 2020

Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The two Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transitions of the two-dimensional 5-state clock model are studied on infinite strips using the DMRG algorithm. Because of the open boundary conditions, the helicity modulus $Upsilo{n}_2$ is computed by imposing twisted magnetic fields at the two boundaries. Its scaling behavior is in good agreement with the existence of essential singularities with $sigma=1/2$ at the two transitions. The predicted universal values of $Upsilo{n}_2$ are shown to be reached in the thermodynamic limit. The fourth-order helicity modulus is observed to display a dip at the high-temperature BKT transition, like the XY model, and shown to take a new universal value at the low-temperature one. Finally, the scaling behavior of magnetization at the low-temperature transition is compatible with $eta=1/4$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.5955

zbMATH Keywords

3/0503/0903/1003/110

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26)

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