Pseudo-Goldstone modes and dynamical gap generation from order-by-thermal-disorder

Abstract

Accidental ground state degeneracies -- those not a consequence of global symmetries of the Hamiltonian -- are inevitably lifted by fluctuations, often leading to long-range order, a phenomenon known as "order-by-disorder" (ObD). The detection and characterization of ObD in real materials currently lacks clear, qualitative signatures that distinguish ObD from conventional energetic selection. We show that for order-by-thermal-disorder (ObTD) such a signature exists: a characteristic temperature dependence of the fluctuation-induced pseudo-Goldstone gap. We demonstrate this in a minimal two-dimensional model that exhibits ObTD, the ferromagnetic Heisenberg-compass model on a square lattice. Using spin-dynamics simulations and self-consistent mean-field calculations, we determine the pseudo-Goldstone gap, $\Delta$, and show that at low temperatures it scales as the square root of temperature, $\sqrt{T}$. We establish that a power-law temperature dependence of the gap is a general consequence of ObTD, showing that all key features of this physics can be captured in a simple model of a particle moving in an effective potential generated by the fluctuation-induced free energy.

arXiv commentMain text: 7 pages and 3 figures. Supplemental material: 8 pages and 3 figures

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