Multicritical behaviour in the fully frustrated \textit{XY} model and related systems

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2005/12/P12002zbMATH Open1456.82138arXivcond-mat/0509682OpenAlexW2017991053MaRDI QIDQ4968823FDOQ4968823

Authors: Martin Hasenbusch, Andrea Pelissetto, Ettore Vicari 

Publication date: 9 July 2019

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

Abstract: We study the phase diagram and critical behavior of the two-dimensional square-lattice fully frustrated XY model (FFXY) and of two related models, a lattice discretization of the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson Hamiltonian for the critical modes of the FFXY model, and a coupled Ising-XY model. We present a finite-size-scaling analysis of the results of high-precision Monte Carlo simulations on square lattices L x L, up to L=O(10^3). In the FFXY model and in the other models, when the transitions are continuous, there are two very close but separate transitions. There is an Ising chiral transition characterized by the onset of chiral long-range order while spins remain paramagnetic. Then, as temperature decreases, the systems undergo a Kosterlitz-Thouless spin transition to a phase with quasi-long-range order. The FFXY model and the other models in a rather large parameter region show a crossover behavior at the chiral and spin transitions that is universal to some extent. We conjecture that this universal behavior is due to a multicritical point. The numerical data suggest that the relevant multicritical point is a zero-temperature transition. A possible candidate is the O(4) point that controls the low-temperature behavior of the 4-vector model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0509682

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zbMATH Keywords

finite-size scalingclassical Monte Carlo simulationsclassical phase transitions (theory)phase diagrams (theory)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic analysis in statistical mechanics (82M60) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25) Continuum limits in quantum field theory (81T27)

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