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Dynamics and conductivity near quantum criticality.
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Physical Review B: Condensed Matter & Materials Physics . Dec2013, Vol. 88 Issue 23, p235108-1-235108-15. 15p. - Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- Relativistic O(N) field theories are studied near the quantum-critical point in two space dimensions. We compute dynamical correlations by large-scale Monte Carlo simulations and numerical analytic continuation. In the ordered side, the scalar spectral function exhibits a universal peak at the Higgs mass. For N = 3 and 4, we confirm its ω3 rise at low frequency. On the disordered side, the spectral function exhibits a sharp gap. For N = 2, the dynamical conductivity rises above a threshold at the Higgs mass (density gap), in the superfluid (Mott insulator) phase. For charged bosons (Josephson arrays), the power-law rise above the Higgs mass increases from two to four. Approximate charge-vortex duality is reflected in the ratio of imaginary conductivities on either side of the transition. We determine the critical conductivity to be σc" = 0.3(±0.1) × 4e2/h and describe a generalization of the worm algorithm to N > 2. We use a singular value decomposition error analysis for the numerical analytic continuation [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10980121
- Volume :
- 88
- Issue :
- 23
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Physical Review B: Condensed Matter & Materials Physics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 94240181
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.88.235108