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Continuous phase transition between Neel and valence bond solid phases on a spin ladder system

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Abstract

We investigate a quantum phase transition between a Neel phase and a valence bond solid (VBS) phase in the J-Q-like model in one spatial dimension.
We study a spin-1/2 two-leg XXZ ladder with a four-spin interaction with the use of the variational uniform matrix product state algorithm and an effective field theory.
We determine the phase diagram and present evidences that the Neel-VBS transition belongs to the Gaussian universality class.

Presenters

  • Takuhiro Ogino

    Univ of Tokyo

Authors

  • Takuhiro Ogino

    Univ of Tokyo

  • Ryui Kaneko

    Kindai Univ.

  • Satoshi Morita

    Univ of Tokyo

  • Shunsuke Furukawa

    Keio Univ.

  • Naoki Kawashima

    Univ of Tokyo, Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo