• 文献标题:   Numerical evidence of conformal phase transition in graphene with long-range interactions
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   BUIVIDOVICH P, SMITH D, ULYBYSHEV M, VON SMEKAL L
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Justus Liebig Univ
  • 被引频次:   3
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.99.205434
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

Using state of the art Hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) simulations we carry out an unbiased study of the competition between spin-density wave (SDW) and charge-density wave (CDW) order in suspended graphene. We determine that the realistic interelectron potential of graphene must be scaled up by a factor of roughly 1.6 to induce a semimetal-SDW phase transition and find no evidence for CDW order. A study of critical properties suggests that the universality class of the three-dimensional chiral Heisenberg Gross-Neveu model with two fermion flavors, predicted by renormalization group studies and strong-coupling expansion, is unlikely to apply to this transition. We propose that our results instead favor an interpretation in terms of a conformal phase transition. In addition, we describe a variant of the HMC algorithm which uses exact fermionic forces during molecular dynamics trajectories and avoids the use of pseudofermions. Compared to standard HMC, this allows for a substantial increase of the integrator step size while achieving comparable Metropolis acceptance rates and leads to a sizable performance improvement.