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arXiv:cond-mat/0501689 · Physical Review B

One-dimensional itinerant ferromagnets with Heisenberg symmetry and the ferromagnetic quantum critical point

K. Sengupta, Yong Baek Kim

Published May 26, 2005• 6 citations
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Abstract

We study one-dimensional itinerant ferromagnets with Heisenberg symmetry near a ferromagnetic quantum critical point. It is shown that the Berry phase term arises in the effective action of itinerant ferromagnets when the full SU(2) symmetry is present. We explicitly demonstrate that dynamical critical exponent of the theory with the Berry term is $z=2+\mathrm{O}({ϵ}^{2})$ in the sense of $ϵ$ expansion, as previously discovered in the Ising limit. It appears, however, that the universality class at the interacting fixed point is not the same. We point out that even though the critical theory in the Ising limit can be obtained by the standard Hertz-Millis approach, the Heisenberg limit is expected to be different. We also calculate the exact electron Green functions $G(x,t=0)$ and $G(x=0,t)$ near the transition in a range of temperature, which can be used for experimental signatures of the associated critical points.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.71.174427

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We consider the effect of the coupling between two-dimensional (2D) quantum rotors near an XY ferromagnetic quantum critical point and spins of itinerant fermions. We analyze how this coupling affects the dynamics of rotors and the self-energy of fermions. A common belief is that near a q=0q=0q=0 ferromagnetic transition, fermions induce an $\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Omega}}/q$ Landau damping of rotors (i.e., the dynamical critical exponent is z=3z=3z=3) and Landau overdamped rotors give rise to non-Fermi liquid fermionic self-energy $\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Sigma}}\ensuremath{\propto}{\ensuremath{\omega}}^{2/3}$. This behavior has been confirmed in previous quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) studies. Here we show that for the XY case the behavior is different. We report the results of large-scale quantum Monte Carlo simulations, which show that at small frequencies z=2z=2z=2 and $\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Sigma}}\ensuremath{\propto}{\ensuremath{\omega}}^{1/2}$. We argue that the new behavior is associated with the fact that a fermionic spin is by itself not a conserved quantity due to spin-spin coupling to rotors, and a combination of self-energy and vertex corrections replaces 1/q1/q1/q in the Landau damping by a constant. We discuss the implication of these results to experiments.