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Quantum phase transition of the sub-Ohmic rotor model

arXiv:1110.2470 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.84.195136

Abstract

We investigate the behavior of an -component quantum rotor coupled to a bosonic dissipative bath having a sub-Ohmic spectral density with . With increasing dissipation strength, this system undergoes a quantum phase transition from a delocalized phase to a localized phase. We determine the exact critical behavior of this transition in the large- limit. For , we find nontrivial critical behavior corresponding to an interacting renormalization group fixed point while we find mean-field behavior for . The results agree with those of the corresponding long-range interacting classical model. The quantum-to-classical mapping is therefore valid for the sub-Ohmic rotor model.

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