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arxiv: cond-mat/9807393 · v3 · pith:PFE76MKRnew · submitted 1998-07-30 · ❄️ cond-mat.str-el · cond-mat.mes-hall· cond-mat.stat-mech· hep-lat· physics.comp-ph

Universal critical temperature for Kosterlitz-Thouless transitions in bilayer quantum magnets

classification ❄️ cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.mes-hallcond-mat.stat-mechhep-latphysics.comp-ph
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Recent experiments show that double layer quantum Hall systems may have a ground state with canted antiferromagnetic order. In the experimentally accessible vicinity of a quantum critical point, the order vanishes at a temperature T_{KT} = \kappa H, where H is the magnetic field and \kappa is a universal number determined by the interactions and Berry phases of the thermal excitations. We present quantum Monte Carlo simulations on a model spin system which support the universality of \kappa and determine its numerical value. This allows experimental tests of an intrinsically quantum-mechanical universal quantity, which is not also a property of a higher dimensional classical critical point.

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