EPJ manuscript No. (will be inserted by the editor) Universal scaled Higgs-mass gap for the bilayer Heisenberg model in the ordered phase 6 1 0 2 Yoshihiro Nishiyama n a J Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, OkayamaUniversity,Okayama700-8530, Japan 9 1 Received: date/ Revised version: date ] h c e Abstract. The spectral properties for the bilayer quantum Heisenberg model were investigated with the m numerical diagonalization method. In the ordered phase, there appears the massive Higgs excitation em- - t a bedded in the continuum of the Goldstone excitations. Recently, it was claimed that the properly scaled t s . t Higgs mass is a universal constant in proximity to the critical point. Diagonalizing the finite-size cluster a m with N ≤36 spins, we calculated the dynamical scalar susceptibility χ′′(ω),which is rather insensitive to s - d the Goldstone mode. A finite-size-scaling analysis of χ′′(ω) is made, and the universal (properly scaled) n s o Higgs mass is estimated. c [ 1 v PACS. 75.10.Jm Quantized spin models – 05.70.Jk Critical point phenomena – 75.40.Mg Numerical 2 7 simulation studies – 05.50.+q Lattice theory and statistics (Ising, Potts, etc.) 7 4 0 . 1 Introduction eter concerned.] Recently, the Higgs-excitation spectral 1 0 peak was observed for the the two-dimensional ultra-cold 6 1 In the spontaneous-symmetry-breaking phase, there ap- : atom [1]. Here, a key ingredient is that the external dis- v i peartheGoldstoneandHiggsexcitationsinthelow-energy X turbance, namely, the trap-potential modulation, retains r a spectrum.Theformer(latter)excitationismassless(mas- the U(1) (gauge) symmetry, and it is rather insensitive sive), and the continuum of the former overwhelms the to the (low-lying)Goldstone modes.Moreover,the exper- latterdispersionbranch.[Inregardtothewine-bottlebot- iment revealed a gradual closure of the Higgs mass m H tom potential, the former (latter) excitation corresponds in proximity to the critical point between the superfluid to the azimuthal (radial) modulation of the order param- and Mott-insulator phases; the criticality belongs to the Send offprint requests to: (2+1)-dimensionalO(2)universalityclass,andthesingu- 2 Yoshihiro Nishiyama: Universal scaled Higgs-mass gap for thebilayer Heisenberg model in theordered phase larityliesoutofthescopeoftheGinzburg-Landautheory. Here, the spin-S = 1/2 operator S is placed at each ai SuchO(2)-[equivalently,U(1)-]symmetricsystemisubiq- square-latticepointi (i=1,2,...,N/2)withineachlayer uitous in nature, and the underlying physics is common a (a = 1,2) The summation runs over all possi- hiji P to a wide variety of substances; we refer readers to Ref. ble nearest neighbor pairs ij within each layer. The pa- h i [2] for a review. rameter J(> 0) [J′(> 0)] denotes the intra- (inter-) layer ferromagnetic(antiferromagnetic)Heisenberginteraction; Inthispaper,weinvestigatetheO(3)-symmetriccoun- hereafter, we consider J′ as the unit of energy (J′ = 1). terpart,namely,thebilayerquantumHeisenbergmodel[3, Thephasediagram[3]ispresentedinFig.1.AtJ =0.435 c 4,5], by means of the numerical diagonalization method. [4],thereoccursaphasetransition,separatingtheparam- Our aim is to estimate the scaled Higgs mass (univer- agnetic (J < J ) and ordered (J > J ) phases; the phase c c sal amplitude ratio) m /∆ (∆: the excitation gap in the H transition belongs to the three-dimensional O(3) univer- adjacent paramagnetic phase); technical details are ad- sality class [4]. The criticality of the spectral function in dressed in Sec. 2. The scaled Higgs mass has been es- the ordered phase is our concern. It has to be mentioned timated as m /∆ = 2.2(3) [6] and 2.6(4) [7] with the H that the recent quantum Monte Carlo simulation [7] also (quantum) Monte Carlo method. On the one hand, via treats the bilayer Heisenberg model (1), albeit with an the elaboratedrenormalization-groupanalyses,the scaled antiferromagnetic intra-layer interaction, J < 0. The set- Higgsmasswasestimatedasm /∆=2.7[8]and1.64[9]. H tingoftheinteractionparametermaybearrangedsuitably Anadvantageofthenumericaldiagonalizationapproachis for each methodology. Nevertheless, details of magnetism that the spectral property is accessible directly [10] with- should not influence the criticality of m . H out resorting to the inverse Laplace transformation (see Therestofthispaperisorganizedasfollows.InSec.2, Appendix B of Ref. [11]). It has to be mentioned that weanalyzethespectralpropertiesfortheHamiltonian(1) the scaled Higgs mass m /∆ has been investigated ex- H by means of the numerical diagonalization method. The tensivelyas forthe O(2)-symmetriccase,[6,8,9,11,12,13, simulation algorithm is presented in Appendix. In Sec. 3, 14]. According to the study [13] of the O(N)-symmetric we address the summary and discussions. system with generic N, the Higgs-excitation peak should get broadened for large N. 2 Numerical results To be specific, we present the Hamiltonian for the bi- In this section, we present the numerical results. We em- layer Heisenberg model [3,4,5] ployedthenumericaldiagonalizationmethodforthefinite- 2 N/2 sizeclusterwithN 36spins.Weimplementedthescrew- ≤ = J Sai Saj +J′ S1i S2i. (1) H − · · Xa=1Xhiji Xi=1 boundary condition (Appendix) [15] in order to treat a Yoshihiro Nishiyama: Universal scaled Higgs-mass gap for thebilayer Heisenberg model in theordered phase 3 variety of N = 30,32,... systematically. Because the N N = 30 (+), 32 ( ) 34 ( ) and 36 (✷). Here, the scaling × ∗ spins constitute the bilayer cluster, the linear dimension parameters, J = 0.435 and ν = 0.7112, are taken from c of the cluster is given by Refs.[4]and[16,17],respectively;namely,therearenoad- justableparametersinvolvedinthescalinganalysis.From L= N/2. (2) p Fig. 3, we see that the data collapse into a scaling curve 2.1 Finite-size-scaling analysis of the Goldstone mass satisfactorily for a considerably wide range of J. Such a m feature indicates that the simulation data already enter G thescalingregime.Encouragedbythisfinding,weturnto As a preliminary survey, we analyze the Goldstone mass the analysis of the spectral properties. m with the finite-size-scaling method. The Goldstone G mass m is identified as the triplet (magnon) excitation G 2.2 Spectral function (dynamical scalar susceptibility) gap;hence, the simulationwas performedwithin the sub- χ′′(ω) s space specified by the longitudinal total magnetization, either Stzot =0 or 1. In Fig. 4, we present the spectral function (dynamical In Fig. 2, we present the scaled Goldstone mass LmG scalar susceptibility) [18] for various J and system sizes, N(= 2L2) = 30 (+), 32 1 1 χ′′(ω)= Im g † g , (3) ( ) 34 ( ) and 36 (✷). The data suggest that a phase s −N (cid:28) (cid:12)(cid:12)E H−Eg −ω+iδE(cid:12)(cid:12) (cid:29) × ∗ (cid:12) (cid:12) (cid:12) (cid:12) transition takes place at J 0.4; note that the inter- for various ω with fixed J = 0.8(> J ) and N = 36. c ≈ section point of the curves indicates the location of the The energy-resolution parameter is set to δ = 1.4 (solid) critical point. In Ref. [4], the critical point was estimated and 0.3 (dotted). Here, the symbol g (E ) denotes the g | i as J = 0.435; our result agrees with this estimate. The ground-state vector (energy), and the operator is given c E Goldstone mass appears to close, mG[< O(L−1)] → 0, by E = PH|J=Jc with the projection operator P = 1− in the ordered phase J > J as L (thermodynamic g g . The spectral function χ′′ is sensitive (less sensi- c → ∞ | ih | s limit).Onthecontrary,intheparamagneticphaseJ <J , tive) to the Higgs (Goldstone) mode, because the exter- c a finite mass gap opens; in the quantum-magnetism lan- nal perturbation retains the O(3) symmetry. An ad- E guage, the mass gap is interpreted as the spin (magnon) vantageofthe numericaldiagonalizationapproachis that gap for the spin-liquid phase. The spin gap [see Eq. (5)] the resolvent f(z) = g †( z)−1 g is accessible di- h |E H− E| i setsafundamentalenergyscaleforthesubsequentscaling rectly via the continued-fractionexpansion[10]. Actually, analyses. thecontinued-fraction-expansionmethodisessentiallythe InFig.3,wepresentthescalingplotfortheGoldstone sameasthatoftheLanczosdiagonalizationalgorithm(tri- mass, (J J )L1/ν-Lm , for various J and system sizes, diagonalization sequence), and computationally less de- c G − 4 Yoshihiro Nishiyama: Universal scaled Higgs-mass gap for thebilayer Heisenberg model in theordered phase manding.Theexternalperturbation is seeminglydiffer- ture agrees with the claim [13] that the Higgs peak gets E entfromtheconventionalones(implementedintheMonte broadened for the O(N)-symmetric model with large N. Carlo simulations, for instance). However, as far as the Last, rather technically, the continued-fraction expansion symmetry is concerned, those choices are all equivalent, [10]wasiterateduntiltheabove-mentionedsecondarysub- yielding an identical critical behavior as to m . Here, we peakconverges.Thecomputationaleffortiscomparableto H employed the Hamiltonian itself as for , which turned that of the evaluation of g . E | i out to be less influenced by corrections to scaling. 2.3 Finite-size-scaling analysis of χ′′ In Fig. 4 (solid), we observe a Higgs-excitation peak s with the mass (excitation gap), m = 2.2. As mentioned H In this section, we analyze the finite-size-scaling behavior above,the signal fromthe Higgs excitation comes up, be- for χ′′ in the ordered phase, J >J . s c cause the scalar susceptibility χ′′ is a good probe specific s The spectral function obeys the finite-size-scaling for- to it [18]; actually, there should exist low-lying (0 < ω < mula [19] 2.2)Goldstone andits continuummodes, as illustratedin χ′′(ω)=L2/ν−3f[ω/∆,(J J )L1/ν], (4) Sec. 2.1. Above the threshold ω > 2.2, a tail background s − c extends. As mentioned afterward, the present simulation with the critical point J , the correlation-length critical c was performed so as to examine the main (Higgs) peak, exponentν,acertainscalingfunctionf andtheexcitation and such high-lying spectral intensities are beyond the gap scope of the present analysis. ∆(J)=m (2J J), (5) G c − As a reference, we also presented a high-resolutionre- reflected as to the critical point J ; note that the Gold- c sult [Fig. 4 (dotted)], which reveals fine details of the stonemassm wasconsideredinSec.2.1.Inotherwords, G spectral function, namely, the series of the constituent δ- the Goldstone mode (in J > J ) and the fundamental c functionsubpeaks.TheHiggspeaksplitsintotheprimary energy scale ∆ (in J <J ) continue adiabatically. c andsecondarysubpeaks,whichlocate atω =1.9 and3.5, InFig.5,wepresentthescalingplot,ω/∆-L3−2/νχ′′(ω), s respectively. As demonstrated in the next section, these forN =32(dotted),34(solid)and36(dashed)withfixed fine structures (finite-size artifacts) have to be smeared δ =1.7∆and(J J )L1/ν =2.5.Here,thescalingparam- c − out by an adequate δ in order to attain plausible finite- eters, J =0.435 [4] and ν =0.7112 [17], are the same as c size-scaling behaviors. thoseofFig.3;thatis,therearenoadjustableparameters Last, we address a number of remarks. First, as men- inthescalinganalysis.Thescaled-spectral-functioncurves tioned above, the Higgs peak consists of two subpeaks, collapse into a scaling function f satisfactorily.From Fig. and hence, it has an appreciable peak width. Such fea- 5, we notice that the (properly scaled) Higgs mass takes Yoshihiro Nishiyama: Universal scaled Higgs-mass gap for thebilayer Heisenberg model in theordered phase 5 a universal value m /∆ = 2.7. The universality (stabil- (dotted)]to the secondary(andeventernary...)one(s)for H ity) of m /∆ with respect to the variation of the scaling (J J )L1/ν > 3.5, and the Higgs peak drifts (and gets H c − argument (J J )L1/ν is examined in the next section. broadened);forexceedinglylarge(J J )L1/ν,eventually, c c − − thesimulationdatamaygetoutofthe scalingregime.On 2.4 Universal character of the scaled Higgs peak theonehand,inthe(J J )L1/ν <2side,theHiggsmass c − acquires a significant enhancement. This narrow regime In the above section, we investigated the universal be- is not physically relevant, because the regime shrinks in havior of χ′′ (4) at a particular scaling argument, (J s − the raw-parameter scale [like J J (< 2/L1/ν) 0] as c J )L1/ν =2.5,andobservedascaledHiggsmassm /∆= − → c H L . To summarize, at least for the available system 2.7.Inthissection,wevary(J J )L1/ν inordertosurvey → ∞ c − sizes N 36, the scaling regime (J J )L1/ν 2.5 is c ≤ − ≈ theuniversalcharacteroftheHiggspeak,particularly,the optimal in the sense that the scaled Higgs mass takes a scaled Higgs mass. stable minimal value InFig.6,wepresentthescalingplot,ω/∆-L3−2/νχ′′(ω), s for various (J Jc)L1/ν = 2 (dotted), 2.5 (solid) and mH/∆=2.7. (6) − 3 (dashed) with fixed δ = 1.7∆ and N = 36; here, the As mentioned above, the Higgs peak consists of two scaling parameters, J and ν, are the same as those of c subpeaks.As a byproduct,weare ableto estimate the in- Fig. 3. The data in Fig. 6 illustrate that the Higgs-peak trinsic peak width. For (J J )L1/ν = 4.5 and N = 36, c − position, m /∆ = 2.7, is kept invariant with respect to H these subpeaks locate at ω/∆ 2 and 3.5 with almost ≈ the variationof (J J )L1/ν. Onthe contrary,the Higgs- c − identical spectral weights; hence, the center locates at peak height seems to be scattered; note that according ω/∆ 2.75. The distance, 1.5, between these subpeaks ≈ to Eq. (4), the Higgs peaks do not necessarily overlap, may be a good indicator as to the intrinsic width of the because a scaling argument (J J )L1/ν is no longer a c − Higgs peak, δm /∆ = 1.5. It has been claimed [11] that H constant value. In our preliminary survey, scanning the the Higgs peak for the O(3)-symmetric model should be parameter space (J J )L1/ν, we observed the following c − broadened significantly. Our result supports this claim. tendency. For (J J )L1/ν > 2, the scaled Higgs mass c − m /∆ = 2.7 is kept invariant. In closer look, however, H 3 Summary and Discussions for (J J )L1/ν >3.5, the Higgs peak drifts to the high- c − energy side gradually possibly because of the finite-size ThecriticalityoftheHiggs-excitationspectrumχ′′(ω)[Eq. s artifact (limitation of the tractable system size). The mi- (3)] for the bilayer Heisenberg model (1) was investigated croscopic origin of the drift is as follows. The spectral by means of the numerical diagonalization method; the weight transfers from the primary subpeak [see Fig. 4 spectralfunctionχ′′(ω)isaccessibledirectlyviathecontinued- s 6 Yoshihiro Nishiyama: Universal scaled Higgs-mass gap for thebilayer Heisenberg model in theordered phase fraction expansion [10]. The spectral function appears to 3D O(3) universality class Higgs: massive obeythe scalingformula(4)satisfactorily,indicating that Goldstone: massless J(/J’) 0 Jc=0.435 the simulation data already enter the scaling regime. As Dimer phase Ordered phase (paramagnetic) aresult,weestimatedthescaledHiggsmassm /∆=2.7 H withthepeakwidthδm /∆=1.5.Sofar,withthe(quan- Fig. 1. A schematic phase diagram [3,4] for the bilayer H Heisenberg model (1) is presented. A critical point locates tum)MonteCarlomethod,thescaledHiggsmasshasbeen at J = 0.435 [4], separating the paramagnetic and ordered estimated as m /∆ = 2.2(3) [6] and 2.6(4) [7]. Accord- c H phases.Inthelatterphase,theHiggs(Goldstone)excitationis ing to the normalization-group analysis, the scaled Higgs massive(massless). TheHiggs-excitation peakforthespectral mass was estimated as m /∆= 2.7 [8] and 1.64 [9]. Our H function (3) is our concern. result agrees with these preceding estimates [6,7,8]; the errormarginofour estimate should be bounded by half a peak width, 0.75. ≈ 5 TheGinzburg-Landautheory(basedonthewine-bottle- 4.5 4 3.5 bottompotential)yieldsthecriticalamplituderatiom /∆= H 3 G m 2.5 √2. Clearly, the Ginzburg-landau theory fails in describ- L 2 1.5 ing the spectral property for the d = 3 O(3) universal- 1 0.5 0 ity class.In other words, such a spectral property reflects 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 J a character of each universality class rather sensitively. Fig. 2. The scaled Goldstone mass Lm is plotted for var- As a matter of fact, as for the “deconfined critical” phe- G ious J and (+) N(= 2L2) = 30, (×) 32, (∗) 34 and (✷) 36. nomenon [20], an exotic spectral property was predicted. The result agrees with the preceding estimate J = 0.435 [4]; c Aconsiderationtowardthis directionis left forthe future note that the intersection point of thecurves indicates thelo- study. cation of the critical point. In the ordered phase J > J , the c Goldstone-excitation gap closes, m [< O(L−1)] → 0, in the G thermodynamiclimit,L→∞.Onthecontrary,intheparam- Acknowledgment agneticphaseJ <Jc,anexcitationgapopens;thegap[seeEq. (5)]setsafundamentalenergyscaleforthesubsequentscaling analyses. This work was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Grant No. 25400402). Yoshihiro Nishiyama: Universal scaled Higgs-mass gap for thebilayer Heisenberg model in theordered phase 7 6 0.04 5 0.035 0.03 4 LmG 3 ν2/χ’’s 0 0.0.0225 2 3-L 0.015 1 0.01 0.005 0 -4 -2 0 2 4 0 (J-J)L1/ν 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 c ω/∆ Fig.3. ThescalingplotfortheGoldstonemass,(J−J )L1/ν- Fig. 5. The scaling plot (4) for the spectral function, ω/∆- c Lm , is plotted for (+) N = 30, (×) 32, (∗) 34 and (✷) 36. L3−2/νχ′′(ω), is shown with fixed (J−J )L1/ν =2.5 and δ = G s c Here, the scaling parameters, J = 0.435 and ν = 0.7112, are 1.7∆ for various N =32 (dotted),34 (solid) and 36 (dashed); c takenfromtheexistingliteratures,Refs.[4]and[16,17],respec- here, the scaling parameters, J and ν, are the same as those c tively.Namely,therearenoadjustable parametersinvolvedin of Fig. 3. The scaled Higgs peak locates at m /∆=2.7. H thescaling analysis. 0.04 0.035 0.1 0.03 0.09 0.08 χ’’s 0.025 0.07 ν2/ 0.02 0.06 3-L 0.015 χ’’s 0.05 0.01 0.04 0.005 0.03 0.02 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 0.01 ω/∆ 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ω Fig. 6. The scaling plot (4) for the spectral function, ω/∆- Fig. 4. Thespectralfunctionχ′′(ω)(3)isplotted forvarious L3−2/νχ′′(ω), is shown with fixed N = 36 and δ = 1.7∆ for s s ω with fixedJ =0.8and N =36. Theω-resolutionparameter variousscalingarguments(J−Jc)L1/ν =2(dotted),2.5(solid) δ is set to δ = 1.4 (solid) and 0.3 (dotted). The main peak and 3 (dashed); here, the scaling parameters, Jc and ν, are at ω = 2.2 (solid) corresponds to the Higgs excitation. The the same as those of Fig. 3. The curves do not necessarily main peak consists of primary (ω = 1.9) and secondary (ω = overlap,becausethescalingargument(J−Jc)L1/ν isranging. 3.5) subpeaks; the Higgs-excitation peak acquires an intrinsic The scaled Higgs-peak position mH/∆ = 2.7 seems to be a width. universalconstant. 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