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arXiv:0710.1341 · Physical Review B

Modulated phases in magnetic models frustrated by long-range interactions

Erik Nielsen, R. N. Bhatt, David A. Huse

Published Feb 25, 2008• 7 citations
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Abstract

We study an Ising model in one dimension with short-range ferromagnetic and long-range (power law) antiferromagnetic interactions. We show that the zero temperature phase diagram in a (longitudinal) field $H$ involves a sequence of up and down domains whose size varies continuously with $H$, between $\ensuremath{-}{H}_{c}$ and ${H}_{c}$, which represent the edges of the ferromagnetic up and down phases. The implications of long-range interaction in many body systems are discussed.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.77.054432

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Antiferromagnetic Hamiltonians with short range, non-frustrating interactions are well known to exhibit long range magnetic order in dimensions d ≥2 but exhibit only quasi-long-range order, with power-law decay of correlations, in d = 1 (for half-integer spin). On the other hand, non-frustrating long range interactions can induce long range order in d = 1. We study Hamiltonians in which the long range interactions have an adjustable amplitude λ, as well as an adjustable power law 1/| x | α , using a combination of quantum Monte Carlo and analytic methods: spin-wave, large N non-linear σ model, and renormalization group methods. We map out the phase diagram in the λ–α plane and study the nature of the critical line separating the phases with long range and quasi-long-range order. We find that this corresponds to a novel line of critical points with continuously varying critical exponents and a dynamical exponent, z <1.