Quantum Monte Carlo calculation of critical exponents of the Gross-Neveu-Yukawa on a two-dimensional fermion lattice model

It is expected that the Gross-Neveu-Yukawa (GNY) chiral Ising transition of Dirac fermions coupled with a scalar field in (2 + 1) dimensions will be the first fermionic quantum critical point that various methods, such as conformal bootstrap, perturbative renormalization group, and quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations, would yield converged critical exponents-serving the same role as the Ising and O(N) models in the textbooks of statistical and quantum physics. However, such an expectation has not been fully realized from the lattice QMC simulations due to the obstacles introduced by the UV finite-size effect. In this Letter, by means of the elective-momentum ultrasize (EMUS)-QMC method, we compute the critical exponents of the O(N/2)2 x Z2 GNY N = 8 chiral Ising transition on a two-dimensional pi-flux fermion lattice model between Dirac semimetal and quantum spin Hall insulator phases. With the matching of fermionic and bosonic momentum transfer and collective update in momentum space, our QMC results provide fully consistent exponents with those obtained from the bootstrap and perturbative approaches. In this way, the EMUS now live happily on the N = 8 island and could explore the chiral Gross-Neveu-Yukawa archipelago with ease.

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In this study, the critical exponents of the GNY chiral Ising transition of Dirac fermions coupled with a scalar field were computed using the EMUS-QMC method. The results obtained from a two-dimensional fermion lattice model were consistent with those obtained from the bootstrap and perturbative approaches.