Fermionic quantum criticality in honeycomb and π -flux Hubbard models: Finite-size scaling of renormalization-group-invariant observables from quantum Monte Carlo

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 91, Issue 16, 2015, Pages

  Parisen Toldin, Francesco ^a   Hohenadler, Martin ^a   Assaad, Fakher F ^a   Herbut, Igor F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 84929146448     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.91.165108     Document Type: Article

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