Anomalous scaling at the quantum critical point in itinerant antiferromagnets.

نویسندگان

  • Ar Abanov
  • A Chubukov
چکیده

We show that the Hertz phi(4) theory of quantum criticality is incomplete as it misses anomalous nonlocal contributions to the interaction vertices. For antiferromagnetic quantum transitions, we found that the theory is renormalizable only if the dynamical exponent z=2. The upper critical dimension is still d=4 - z=2; however, the number of marginal vertices at d=2 is infinite. As a result, the theory has a finite anomalous exponent already at the upper critical dimension. We show that for d<2 the Gaussian fixed point splits into two non-Gaussian fixed points. For both fixed points, the dynamical exponent remains z=2.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Physical review letters

دوره 93 25  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2004