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István A. Kovács

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Renormalization group study of random quantum magnets

We have developed a very efficient numerical algorithm of the strong disorder renormalization group method to study the critical behaviour of the random transverse-field Ising model, which is a prototype of random quantum magnets. With this algorithm we can renormalize an N-site cluster within a time N*log(N), independently of the topology of the graph and we went up to N~4*10^6. We have studied regular lattices with dimension D<=4 as well as Erdos-Renyi random graphs, which are infinite dimensional objects. In all cases the quantum critical behaviour is found to be controlled by an infinite disorder fixed point, in which disorder plays a dominant role over quantum fluctuations. As a consequence the renormalization procedure as well as the obtained critical properties are asymptotically exact for large systems. We have also studied Griffiths singularities in the paramagnetic and the ferromagnetic phases and generalized the numerical algorithm for another random quantum systems.

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Griffiths-McCoy singularities in random quantum spin chains: Exact results

We consider random quantum (tight-binding, XX and Ising) spin chains in the off-critical region and study their Griffiths-McCoy singularities. These are obtained from the density of states of the low-energy excitations, which is calculated exactly by the Dyson-Schmidt method. In large finite systems the low-energy excitations are shown to follow the statistics of extremes and their distribution is given by the Fréchet form. Relation between the Dyson-Schmidt technique and the strong disorder renormalization group method is also discussed.

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