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Line of continuous phase transitions in a three-dimensional U(1) loop model with 1/r^2 current-current interactions

Geraedts, Scott D. and Motrunich, Olexei I. (2012) Line of continuous phase transitions in a three-dimensional U(1) loop model with 1/r^2 current-current interactions. Physical Review B, 85 (14). Art. No. 144303. ISSN 1098-0121. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.85.144303. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20120504-094836233

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Abstract

We study a lattice model of interacting loops in three dimensions with a 1/r^2 interaction. Using Monte Carlo methods, we have found that the phase diagram contains a line of second-order phase transitions between a phase where the loops are gapped and a phase where they proliferate. The correlation length exponent and critical conductivity vary continuously along this line. Our model is exactly self-dual at a special point on the critical line, which allows us to calculate the critical conductivity exactly at this point.


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Motrunich, Olexei I.0000-0001-8031-0022
Additional Information:© 2012 American Physical Society. Received 6 February 2012; published 10 April 2012. We are grateful to M. P. A. Fisher, N. Read, T. Senthil, A. Vishwanath, and W. Witczak-Krempa for stimulating discussions. We acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation through Grant No. DMR-0907145; from the Caltech Institute of Quantum Information and Matter, an NSF Physics Frontiers Center with support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; and from the XSEDE Computational Initiative, Grant No. TG-DMR110052.
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Issue or Number:14
Classification Code:PACS: 64.60.De
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.85.144303
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