title: Scaling and enhanced symmetry at the quantum critical point of the sub-ohmic Bose-Fermi Kondo model.
abstract: We consider the finite-temperature scaling properties of a Kondo-destroying quantum critical point in the Ising-anisotropic Bose-Fermi Kondo model (BFKM). A cluster-updating Monte Carlo approach is used, in order to reliably access a wide temperature range. The scaling function for the two-point spin correlator is found to have the form dictated by a boundary conformal field theory, even though the underlying Hamiltonian lacks conformal invariance. Similar conclusions are reached for all multipoint correlators of the spin-isotropic BFKM in a dynamical large-N limit. Our results suggest that the quantum critical local properties of the sub-Ohmic BFKM are those of an underlying boundary conformal field theory.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics & Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA.
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kirchner
authors.forename: Qimiao
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Si