Impurity spin texture at the critical point between Néel-ordered and valence-bond-solid states in two-dimensional SU(3) quantum antiferromagnets

Banerjee, Argha ; Damle, Kedar ; Alet, Fabien (2011) Impurity spin texture at the critical point between Néel-ordered and valence-bond-solid states in two-dimensional SU(3) quantum antiferromagnets Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 83 (23). Article ID 235111. ISSN 2469-9950

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Abstract

We study the impurity physics at a continuous quantum phase transition from an SU(3) symmetric Néel-ordered state to a valence-bond-solid state that breaks lattice symmetries, using quantum Monte Carlo techniques. This continuous transition is expected to be an example of “deconfined criticality” in an SU(3) symmetric system. We find that the spin-texture induced by a missing-spin defect at the transition takes on a finite-size scaling form consistent with expectations from standard scaling arguments at a scale-invariant quantum critical point, albeit with significant subleading power-law finite size corrections that we analyze in detail. Together with recently found logarithmic violations of scaling at similar continuous transitions in the SU(2) case, our results provide indirect evidence of the existence of operators that become marginal as N is reduced to 2 in the field theoretical description of these deconfined critical points.

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