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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]