Phase transition into Instanton Crystal
arXiv:2011.12157 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.103.075121
Abstract
We propose a class of models exhibiting instanton crystal phase. In this phase, the minimum of the free energy corresponds to a configuration with an imaginary-time-dependent order parameter in a form of a chain of alternating instantons and antiinstantons. The resulting characteristic feature of this state is that the average of the order parameter over the imaginary time vanishes. In order to study the model in a broad region of parameters of the model quantitatively, and prove the existence of the instanton crystal phase, we develop an efficient numerical scheme, suitable for the exact treatment of the proposed models. In a certain limit, results demonstrating the existence of the instanton crystal phase are obtained also analytically. The numerical study of the model shows that there is a phase transition between the instanton crystal and the state with the imaginary-time-independent order parameter.
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