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

Tianning Xiao·Dingyun Yao·Lode Polle·Zhijie Fan·Youjin Deng
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Algebraically decaying interactions $\sim 1/r^{d+\sigma}$ 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 $\sigma \leq 2$, including the marginal case $\sigma=2$. In contrast, for $\sigma > 2$ it recovers the SR asymptotically free behavior with no finite-temperature transition. This places the LR--SR crossover threshold at $\sigma_* = 2$. 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 $\sigma = 2$. 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.

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Tianning Xiao, Dingyun Yao, Lode Polle, Zhijie Fan, Youjin Deng. 2025-12-01. Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Two-dimensional Long-range Heisenberg Model. https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.01956

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