Reconstructing the quantum critical fan of strongly correlated systems using quantum correlations.

ABSTRACT: Albeit occurring at zero temperature, quantum critical phenomena have a huge impact on the finite-temperature phase diagram of strongly correlated systems, giving experimental access to their observation. Indeed, the existence of a gapless, zero-temperature quantum critical point induces the existence of an extended region in parameter space-the quantum critical fan (QCF)-characterized by power-law temperature dependences of all observables. Identifying experimentally the QCF and its crossovers to other regimes (renormalized classical, quantum disordered) remains nonetheless challenging. Focusing on paradigmatic models of quantum phase transitions, here we show that quantum correlations-captured by the quantum variance of the order parameter-exhibit the temperature scaling associated with

SUBMITTER: Frerot I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6362001 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature