Quantum phase transitions in the sub-ohmic spin-boson model: Failure of the quantum-classical mapping

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2005, Pages

  Vojta, Matthias ^a   Tong, Ning Hua ^b   Bulla, Ralf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL RENORMALIZATION GROUP (NRG); QUANTUM-CLASSICAL MAPPING; SPECTRAL FUNCTION; SPIN-BOSON TRANSITION;

ANISOTROPY; FERMIONS; HAMILTONIANS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAPPING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; QUANTUM THEORY;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 18144421189     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.070604     Document Type: Article

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