Exotic versus conventional scaling and universality in a disordered bilayer quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnet

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 9, 2004, Pages

  Sknepnek, Rastko ^a   Vojta, Thomas ^a   Vojta, Matthias ^b  

^a MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIMERS; FERMIONS; HAMILTONIANS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

CORRELATION TIME; CRITICAL POINTS; POWER LAW; QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITIONS (QPT);

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 19544364863     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.097201     Document Type: Article

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