Re-entrance effect in the high-temperature critical phase of the quantum dimer model on the square lattice

TL;DR

This study uses quantum Monte Carlo methods to explore the finite-temperature phase diagram of the quantum dimer model on a square lattice, revealing a high-temperature critical phase and re-entrance effects near the Rokshar-Kivelson point.

Contribution

It introduces an efficient Monte Carlo approach to analyze the quantum dimer model, uncovering a critical phase and re-entrance phenomena at finite temperatures.

Findings

Existence of a high-temperature critical phase with power-law correlations.

Re-entrance effect observed in lines of constant critical exponents.

Finite-temperature transitions to ordered states for small kinetic energies.

Abstract

We present a quantum Monte Carlo investigation of the finite-temperature phase diagram of the quantum dimer model on the square lattice. We use the sweeping cluster algorithm, which allows to implement exactly the dimer constraint, supplemented with a equal-time directed loop move that allows to sample winding sectors. We find a high-temperature critical phase with power-law correlations that extend down to the Rokshar-Kivelson point, in the vicinity of which a re-entrance effect in the lines of constant exponent is found. For small values of the kinetic energy strength, we find finite-temperature transitions to ordered states (columnar and staggered) which match those of interacting classical dimer models.