Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Two-dimensional Long-range Heisenberg Model

Abstract

Algebraically decaying interactions $\sim 1/r^{d+\ddot{I}ƒ}$ can lead to nontrivial universality beyond short-range (SR) theories and spontaneous symmetry breaking in low-dimensional systems. We perform large-scale Monte Carlo simulations for the classical long-range (LR) Heisenberg model in two dimensions (2D) up to linear size $L=8192$. We show that the system enters a long-range-ordered phase through a single continuous phase transition for all $\ddot{I}ƒ\le 2$, including the marginal case $\ddot{I}ƒ=2$. In contrast, for $\ddot{I}ƒ>2$ it recovers the SR asymptotically free behavior with no finite-temperature transition. This places the LR--SR crossover threshold at $\ddot{I}{ƒ}_{\ast }=2$. To characterize the ordered phase, we introduce an LR simple random walk with a fixed total length $\mathcal{L}\sim \mathcal{O}(L^d)$. This fixed-$\mathcal{L}$ walk reproduces the finite-size scaling of the Goldstone-mode fluctuations in the LR Heisenberg model in both two and three dimensions, including the logarithmic scaling at $\ddot{I}ƒ=2$. These results further motivate a general criterion for the existence of finite-temperature long-range order in LR systems with continuous symmetry in any spatial dimension.