Special transition and extraordinary phase on the surface of a two-dimensional quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnet. (English) Zbl 07903660
Summary: Continuous phase transitions exhibit richer critical phenomena on the surface than in the bulk, because distinct surface universality classes can be realized at the same bulk critical point by tuning the surface interactions. The exploration of surface critical behavior provides a window looking into higher-dimensional boundary conformal field theories. In this work, we study the surface critical behavior of a two-dimensional (2D) quantum critical Heisenberg model by tuning the surface coupling strength, and discover a direct special transition on the surface from the ordinary phase into an extraordinary phase. The extraordinary phase has a long-range antiferromagnetic order on the surface, in sharp contrast to the logarithmic decaying spin correlations in the 3D classical O(3) model. The special transition point has a new set of critical exponents, \(y_s = 0.86(4)\) and \(\eta_\parallel = -0.33(1)\), which are distinct from the special transition of the classical O(3) model and indicate a new surface universality class of the 3D O(3) Wilson-Fisher theory.
MSC:
| 81Txx | Quantum field theory; related classical field theories |
| 82Cxx | Time-dependent statistical mechanics (dynamic and nonequilibrium) |
| 81Qxx | General mathematical topics and methods in quantum theory |
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