The hyperscaling relation and standard finite-size scaling (FSS) are known to break down above the upper critical dimension due to dangerous irrelevant variables.
We establish a coherent formalism for FSS at quantum phase transitions above the upper critical dimension
following the recently introduced Q-FSS formalism for thermal phase transitions.
Contrary to long-standing belief, the correlation sector is affected by dangerous irrelevant variables. The presented formalism recovers a generalized hyperscaling relation and FSS form.
Using this new FSS formalism, we determine the full set of critical exponents for the long-range transverse-field Ising chain in all criticality regimes ranging from the nearest-neighbor to the long-range mean-field regime. For the same model, we also explicitly confirm the effect of dangerous irrelevant variables on the characteristic length scale.
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