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Physical review. B, Condensed matter

Quantum effects on the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in the ferromagnetic two-dimensionalXXZmodel

Alessandro Cuccoli, V. Tognetti, Paola Verrucchi, Ruggero Vaia

Published May 1, 1995• 20 citations
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Abstract

The quantum easy-plane ferromagnetic two-dimensional XXZ model is approached by the pure-quantum self-consistent harmonic approximation that reduces it to an effective classical model. Quantum fluctuations weaken both the effective exchange, leading to a reduced Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition temperature with respect to the classical model, and the effective easy-plane anisotropy. The latter vanishes when the anisotropy is smaller than a cutoff value, leading to an instability that could be interpreted as a crossover to a strongly quantum regime where a picture of classical-like renormalized vortices is inadequate.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.51.12840

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We study the critical and thermodynamic properties of an S=1/2 two-dimensional quantum XXZ antiferromagnet with weak easy-plane anisotropy using the continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo method based on the loop-cluster algorithm. A detailed finite-size scaling analysis reveals that the model displays a finite temperature Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless (BKT) transition for anisotropy as small as 10−3, the dominant isotropic coupling. For larger anisotropy (10−2) we single out relevant features of anisotropic behavior that anticipate the BKT transition. Implications for experimental observation of a BKT phase in real magnets are discussed.
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