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Bicritical and tetracritical phenomena and scaling properties of the SO(5) theory
X Hu1
1National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba 305-0047, Japan.
Abstract:
By Monte Carlo simulations on a 3D SO(5) rotator model it is shown that, in contrast to the epsilon expansions of the renormalization group, the bicritical point is stable to biquadratic perturbations of AF-SC (antiferromagnetism-superconductivity) repulsions, which are produced by quantum fluctuations originated from the Gutzwiller projection. Therefore, the present work completes the link from a physical projected SO(5) starting point to an asymptotic SO(5) symmetry point. The tetracritical point is stable for attractive AF-SC interactions. Critical exponents and ratios are evaluated by scaling analysis. Bicritical and tetracritical scaling functions are derived for the first time. Suggestions on experiments are given.
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