Quantum-criticality and percolation in dimer-diluted 2D antiferromagnets

TL;DR

This paper investigates quantum criticality and percolation in dimer-diluted 2D antiferromagnets, revealing a line of critical points with varying exponents and unusual susceptibility behavior at the percolation threshold.

Contribution

It uncovers a continuous line of critical points with variable exponents in dimer-diluted 2D antiferromagnets, contrasting previous findings of a multi-critical point.

Findings

Susceptibility diverges as 1/T^a with a in [1/2,1]

Line of critical points with continuously varying exponents

Robust quantum-critical scaling in bilayer systems

Abstract

The S=1/2 Heisenberg model is considered on bilayer and single-layer square lattices with couplings J1, J2, and with each spin belonging to one J2-coupled dimer. A transition from a Neel to disordered ground state occurs at a critical value of g=J2/J1. The systems are here studied at their dimer-dilution percolation points p*. The multi-critical point (g*,p*) previously found for the bilayer is not reproduced for the single layer. Instead, there is line of critical points (g < g*,p*) with continuously varying exponents. The uniform magnetic susceptibility diverges as 1/T^a $ with a in the range [1/2,1]. This unusual behavior is attributed to an effective free-moment density T^(1-a). The susceptibility of the bilayer is not divergent but exhibits remarkably robust quantum-critical scaling.