CFT description of the fully frustrated XY model and phase diagram analysis

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2006/11/P11009MaRDI QIDQ4968897zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Petter Minnhagen, Gerardo Cristofano, Vincenzo Marotta, Adele Naddeo, G. Niccoli

Publication date 9 July 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0606170

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theory (theory)frustrated systems (theory)phase diagrams (theory)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continuum limits in quantum field theory (81T27) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26)

Abstract: Following a suggestion given in Nucl. Phys. B 300 (1988)611,we show how the U(1)*Z_{2} symmetry of the fully frustrated XY (FFXY) model on a square lattice can be accounted for in the framework of the m-reduction procedure developed for a Quantum Hall system at "paired states" fillings nu =1 (cfr. Cristofano et al.,Mod. Phys. Lett. A 15 (2000)1679;Nucl. Phys. B 641 (2002)547). The resulting twisted conformal field theory (CFT) with central charge c=2 is shown to well describe the physical properties of the FFXY model. In particular the whole phase diagram is recovered by analyzing the flow from the Z_{2} degenerate vacuum of the c=2 CFT to the infrared fixed point unique vacuum of the c=3/2 CFT. The last theory is known to successfully describe the critical behavior of the system at the overlap temperature for the Ising and vortex-unbinding transitions.

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