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Physical Review Letters

Zero-temperature critical behavior of the infinite-range quantum Ising spin glass

Jonathan Miller, David A. Huse

Published May 17, 1993• 136 citations
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Abstract

We examine the quantum phase transition at zero temperature between paramagnetic and spin-glass-ordered phases as the strength of a uniform transverse field, \ensuremath{\Gamma}, is varied. At the critical point, ${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Gamma}}}_{\mathit{c}}$, the spin autocorrelation function decays with time, t, as ${\mathit{t}}^{\mathrm{\ensuremath{-}}2}$. As the transition is approached from the paramagnetic phase the nonlinear susceptibility diverges as {\ensuremath{\Vert}ln(\ensuremath{\Gamma}-${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Gamma}}}_{\mathit{c}}$)\ensuremath{\Vert}/(\ensuremath{\Gamma}-${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Gamma}}}_{\mathit{c}}$)${\mathrm{}}}^{1/2}$.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.70.3147

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