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Phases of quantum dimers from ensembles of classical stochastic trajectories

Oakes, Tom; Powell, Stephen; Castelnovo, Claudio; Lamacraft, Austen; Garrahan, Juan P.

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Authors

Tom Oakes

Claudio Castelnovo

Austen Lamacraft



Abstract

We study the connection between the phase behaviour of quantum dimers and the dynamics of classical stochastic dimers. At the so-called Rokhsar–Kivelson (RK) point a quantum dimer Hamiltonian is equivalent to the Markov generator of the dynamics of classical dimers. A less well understood fact is that away from the RK point the quantum–classical connection persists: in this case the Hamiltonian corresponds to a non-stochastic “tilted” operator that encodes the statistics of time-integrated observables of the classical stochastic problem. This implies a direct relation between the phase behaviour of quantum dimers and properties of ensembles of stochastic trajectories of classical dimers. We make these ideas concrete by studying fully packed dimers on the square lattice. Using transition path sampling – supplemented by trajectory umbrella sampling – we obtain the large deviation statistics of dynamical activity in the classical problem, and show the correspondence between the phase behaviour of the classical and quantum systems. The transition at the RK point between quantum phases of distinct order corresponds, in the classical case, to a trajectory phase transition between active and inactive dynamical phases. Furthermore, from the structure of stochastic trajectories in the active dynamical phase we infer that the ground state of quantum dimers has columnar order to one side of the RK point. We discuss how these results relate to those from quantum Monte Carlo, and how our approach may generalise to other problems.

Citation

Oakes, T., Powell, S., Castelnovo, C., Lamacraft, A., & Garrahan, J. P. (2018). Phases of quantum dimers from ensembles of classical stochastic trajectories. Physical Review B, 98(6), Article 064302. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.98.064302

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jul 19, 2018
Online Publication Date Aug 8, 2018
Publication Date Aug 1, 2018
Deposit Date Jul 25, 2018
Publicly Available Date Aug 1, 2018
Journal Physical Review B
Print ISSN 2469-9950
Electronic ISSN 2469-9969
Publisher American Physical Society
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 98
Issue 6
Article Number 064302
DOI https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.98.064302
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/947106
Contract Date Jul 25, 2018

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