Fermionic quantum critical point of spinless fermions on a honeycomb lattice

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 16, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wang, Lei ^a   Corboz, Philippe ^a,b   Troyer, Matthias ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dirac fermions; quantum critical point; quantum Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

CHARGE DENSITY; CHARGE DENSITY WAVES; CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; FERMI SURFACE; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; TRANSITION FLOW;

CHARGE DENSITY WAVE STATE; DIRAC FERMIONS; PROJECTED ENTANGLED PAIR STATE; QUANTUM CRITICAL BEHAVIOR; QUANTUM CRITICAL POINTS; QUANTUM MONTE CARLO; QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITIONS; REPULSIVE INTERACTIONS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84908042376     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/16/10/103008     Document Type: Article

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