Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Journal Club
Date: | August 18, 2008 |
Title: |
"Scaling in the Fan of an Unconventional Quantum Critical Point" and "From an antiferromagnet to a Valence Bond Solid: Evidence for
a First order phase transition" |
Speaker: |
Kedar Damle |
Abstract: |
I will report on recent work of Melko and Kaul
"Scaling in the Fan of an Unconventional Quantum Critical Point"
[ Phys. Rev. Lett 100, 0117203(2008)] as well as the competing interpretation of very similar data
offered by Jiang et. al. in "From an antiferromagnet to a Valence Bond Solid: Evidence for
a First order phase transition"
[ F-J Jiang,et al. J. Stat. Mech. (2008) P02009, arXiv:cond-mat]
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