Experimental signatures of quantum and topological states in frustrated magnetism

J Khatua, B Sana, A Zorko, M Gomilšek, K Sethupathi… - Physics Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
Frustration in magnetic materials arising from competing exchange interactions can prevent
the system from adopting long-range magnetic order and can instead lead to a diverse …

Proximate deconfined quantum critical point in SrCu2(BO3)2

Y Cui, L Liu, H Lin, KH Wu, W Hong, X Liu, C Li, Z Hu… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The deconfined quantum critical point (DQCP) represents a paradigm shift in quantum
matter studies, presenting a “beyond Landau” scenario for order-order transitions. Its …

Disorder operator and Rényi entanglement entropy of symmetric mass generation

ZH Liu, Y Da Liao, G Pan, M Song, J Zhao, W Jiang… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The “symmetric mass generation”(SMG) quantum phase transition discovered in recent
years has attracted great interest from both condensed matter and high energy theory …

A quantum magnetic analogue to the critical point of water

JL Jiménez, SPG Crone, E Fogh, ME Zayed, R Lortz… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
At the liquid–gas phase transition in water, the density has a discontinuity at atmospheric
pressure; however, the line of these first-order transitions defined by increasing the applied …

Discovery of quantum phases in the Shastry-Sutherland compound SrCu2(BO3)2 under extreme conditions of field and pressure

Z Shi, S Dissanayake, P Corboz, W Steinhardt… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The 2-dimensional layered oxide material SrCu2 (BO3) 2, long studied as a realization of
the Shastry-Sutherland spin topology, exhibits a range of intriguing physics as a function of …

Deconfined quantum criticality lost

M Song, J Zhao, M Cheng, C Xu, MM Scherer… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Over the past two decades, the enigma of the deconfined quantum critical point (DQCP) has
attracted broad attention across the condensed matter, quantum field theory, and high …

Phases of SO(5) Nonlinear Sigma Model with a Topological Term on a Sphere: Multicritical Point and Disorder Phase

BB Chen, X Zhang, Y Wang, K Sun, ZY Meng - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Novel critical phenomena beyond the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson paradigm have been long
sought after. Among many candidate scenarios, the deconfined quantum critical point …

Extracting subleading corrections in entanglement entropy at quantum phase transitions

M Song, J Zhao, ZY Meng, C Xu, M Cheng - SciPost Physics, 2024 - scipost.org
We systematically investigate the finite size scaling behavior of the Rényi entanglement
entropy (EE) of several representative 2d quantum many-body systems between a …

Scaling of the disorder operator at deconfined quantum criticality

YC Wang, N Ma, M Cheng, ZY Meng - SciPost Physics, 2022 - scipost.org
We study scaling behavior of the disorder parameter, defined as the expectation value of a
symmetry transformation applied to a finite region, at the deconfined quantum critical point in …

Emergent self-duality in a long-range critical spin chain: From deconfined criticality to first-order transition

S Yang, Z Pan, DC Lu, XJ Yu - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Over the past few decades, tremendous efforts have been devoted to understanding self-
duality at the quantum critical point, which enlarges the global symmetry and constrains the …