Phase Transitions for quantum Ising model with competing XY
  -interactions on a Cayley tree

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The main aim of the present paper is to establish the existence of a phase transition for the quantum Ising model with competing XY interactions within the quantum Markov chain (QMC) scheme. In this scheme, we employ the \(C^*\)-algebraic approach to the phase transition problem. Note that these kinde of models do not have one-dimensional analogues, i.e. the considered model persists only on trees. It turns out that if the Ising part interactions vanish then the model with only competing XY -interactions on the Cayley tree of order two does not have a phase transition. By phase transition we mean the existence of two distinct QMC which are not quasi-equivalent and their supports do not overlap. Moreover, it is also shown that the QMC associated with the model have clustering property which implies that the von Neumann algebras corresponding to the states are factors.

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Ising models of quantum frustration

S. Sondhi, R Moessner (2000)

We report on a systematic study of two dimensional, periodic, frustrated Ising models with a quantum dynamics introduced via a transverse magnetic field. The systems studied are the triangular and kagome lattice antiferromagnets, fully frustrated models on the square and hexagonal (honeycomb) lattices, a planar analog of the pyrochlore antiferromagnet, a pentagonal lattice antiferromagnet as well as a two quasi one-dimensional lattices that have considerable pedagogical value. All of these exhibit a macroscopic degeneracy at T=0 in the absence of the transverse field, which enters as a singular perturbation. We analyze these systems with a combination of a variational method at weak fields, a perturbative Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson (LGW) approach from large fields as well as quantum Monte Carlo simulations utilizing a cluster algorithm. Our results include instances of quantum order arising from classical criticality (triangular lattice) or classical disorder (pentagonal and probably hexagonal) as well as notable instances of quantum disorder arising from classical disorder (kagome). We also discuss the effect of a finite temperature, as well as the interplay between longitudinal and transverse fields--in the kagome problem the latter gives rise to a non-trivial phase diagram with bond-ordered and bond-critical phases in addition to the disordered phase. We also note connections to quantum dimer models and thereby to the physics of Heisenberg antiferromagnets in short-ranged resonating valence bond phases that have been invoked in discussions of high-temperature superconductivity.