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Higgs amplitude mode in the vicinity of a -dimensional quantum critical point

arXiv:1402.3098 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.89.180501

Abstract

We study the "Higgs" amplitude mode in the relativistic quantum O() model in two space dimensions. Using the nonperturbative renormalization group we compute the O()-invariant scalar susceptibility in the vicinity of the zero-temperature quantum critical point. In the zero-temperature ordered phase, we find a well defined Higgs resonance for with universal properties in agreement with quantum Monte Carlo simulations. The resonance persists at finite temperature below the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition temperature. In the zero-temperature disordered phase, we find a maximum in the spectral function which is however not related to a putative Higgs resonance. Furthermore we show that the resonance is strongly suppressed for .

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