The Phase Transition of the Quantum Ising Model is Sharp

An analysis is presented of the phase transition of the quantum Ising model with transverse field on the d-dimensional hypercubic lattice. It is shown that there is a unique sharp transition. The value of the critical point is calculated rigorously in one dimension. The first step is to express the quantum Ising model in terms of a (continuous) classical Ising model in d+1 dimensions. A so-called ‘random-parity’ representation is developed for the latter model, similar to the random-current representation for the classical Ising model on a discrete lattice. Certain differential inequalities are proved. Integration of these inequalities yields the sharpness of the phase transition, and also a number of other facts concerning the critical and near-critical behaviour of the model under study.     

One-way quantum deficit and quantum coherence in the anisotropic <Emphasis Type="Italic">XY</Emphasis> chain

In this study, we investigate pairwise non-classical correlations measured using a one-way quantum deficit as well as quantum coherence in the XY spin-1/2 chain in a transverse magnetic field for both zero and finite temperatures. The analytical and numerical results of our investigations are presented. In the case when the temperature is zero, it is shown that the one-way quantum deficit can characterize quantum phase transitions as well as quantum coherence. We find that these measures have a clear critical point at λ = 1. When λ ≤ 1, the one-way quantum deficit has an analytical expression that coincides with the relative entropy of coherence. We also study an XX model and an Ising chain at the finite temperatures.     

Random-bond Ising chain in a transverse magnetic field: A finite-size scaling analysis

We investigate the zero-temperature quantum phase transition of the randombond Ising chain in a transverse magnetic field. Its critical properties are identical to those of the McCoy-Wu model, which is a classical Ising model in two dimensions with layered disorder. The latter is studied via Monte Carlo simulations and transfer matrix calculations and the critical exponents are determined with a finite-size scaling analysis. The magnetization and susceptibility obey conventional rather than activated scaling. We observe that the order parameter and correlation function probability distribution show a nontrivial scaling near the critical point, which implies a hierarchy of critical exponents associated with the critical behavior of the generalized correlation lengths.     

Spin dynamics in hole-doped two-dimensional S = 1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnets: 63Cu NQR relaxation in La2-xSrxCuO4 for x ≤ 0.04

A cluster algorithm formulated in continuous (imaginary) time is presented for Ising models in a transverse field. It works directly with an infinite number of time-slices in the imaginary time direction, avoiding the necessity to take this limit explicitly. The algorithm is tested at the zero-temperature critical point of the pure two-dimensional (2d) transverse Ising model. Then it is applied to the 2d Ising ferromagnet with random bonds and transverse fields, for which the phase diagram is determined. Finite size scaling at the quantum critical point as well as the study of the quantum Griffiths-McCoy phase indicate that the dynamical critical exponent is infinite as in 1d. Received 6 November 1998     

Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Steering and Quantum Phase Transition in Spin Chains

We study the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering and quantum phase transitions of the transverse Ising and antiferromagnetic XXZ spin-1/2 chains. By making use of steerable weight, we calculate the steerability for the bipartite subsystems of the models. It is shown that steerability vanishes abruptly and its value maintains zero in a region close to the critical point for the Ising chain. This result is quite different from the information provided by entanglement and quantum discord. While for the XXZ chain, steerability increases and reaches maximal at the critical point, indicating the occurrence of quantum phase transition.     

Conformal invariance and the critical behavior of the tripletXY quantum chain

We introduce and study the critical properties of the tripletXY quantum chain. This system is described in terms of three-spin interactions and is the generalization of the standardXY quantum chain. We show that this model, with periodic boundaries, has a local gauge invariance and can be described by the composition of two triplet Ising models, with general toroidal boundary conditions. From this composition the phase diagram as well the conformai anomaly and critical exponents are determined by exploring their relations with the mass gap amplitudes predicted by conformai invariance.     

Biorthogonal quantum criticality in non-Hermitian many-body systems

We develop the perturbation theory of the fidelity susceptibility in biorthogonal bases for arbitrary interacting non-Hermitian many-body systems with real eigenvalues. The quantum criticality in the non-Hermitian transverse field Ising chain is investigated by the second derivative of the ground-state energy and the ground-state fidelity susceptibility. We show that the system undergoes a second-order phase transition with the Ising universal class by numerically computing the critical points and the critical exponents from the finite-size scaling theory. Interestingly, our results indicate that the biorthogonal quantum phase transitions are described by the biorthogonal fidelity susceptibility instead of the conventional fidelity susceptibility.     

横场中非束缚类准周期伊辛链的赝临界点

本文系统地研究了有限尺寸下非束缚类准周期量子伊辛链在横场中的赝临界点的行为. 首先, 通过计算平均磁矩和协作参量, 发现这两个量的导数随着横场的变化都会出现两个清晰的峰. 这与束缚类伊辛链和无序伊辛链的结果明显不同. 其次, 研究了横场中赝临界点的概率分布情况, 发现概率分布并不是高斯型的. 这也与无序的结果不同. 最后, 分析了赝临界点产生的原因, 发现赝临界点是由非束缚类准周期伊辛链中的集团结构造成的.     

Fermionic Ising glasses in magnetic transverse field with BCS pairing interaction

We study a fermionic infinited-ranged Ising spin glass with a real space BCS interaction in the presence of an applied transverse field. The problem is formulated in the integral functional formalism where the SU(2) spins are given in terms of bilinear combinations of Grassmann fields. The problem is solved within static approximation and the replica symmetry ansatz combined with previous approaches used to study the critical behavior of the quantum Ising spin glass in a transverse field and the spin glass Heisenberg model with BCS pairing. Our results show that the transverse field has strong effect in the phase boundary of the spin glass phase and the PAIR phase in which there is a long range order corresponding to formations of pairs. The location of the tricritical point in the PAIR phase transition line is also affected.     

Quantum phase transition in spin glasses with multi-spin interactions

We examine the phase diagram of the p-interaction spin glass model in a transverse field. We consider a spherical version of the model and compare with results obtained in the Ising case. The analysis of the spherical model, with and without quantization, reveals a phase diagram very similar to that obtained in the Ising case. In particular, using the static approximation, reentrance is observed at low temperatures in both the quantum spherical and Ising models. This is an artifact of the approximation and disappears when the imaginary time dependence of the order parameter is taken into account. The resulting phase diagram is checked by accurate numerical investigation of the phase boundaries.     

A Compensation Temperature Induced by Transverse Fields in a Mixed Spin-1 and Spin-3/2 Ising Ferrimagnetic System

A mean-field theory is developed for a mixed Ising ferrimagnetic system consisting of spin 1 and spin 3/2 with different transverse fields. The phase diagram and the thermal behaviour of magnetizations are studied. We find that a compensation point induced by different transverse fields can be observed, although the system never exhibits any compensation point for either zero or uniform transverse fields. The anomalous behaviour of the initial longitudinal magnetic susceptibility in the vicinity of the compensation and critical temperatures is also obtained.     

Magnetic dipolar ordering and quantum phase transition in an Fe8 molecular magnet

We show that a crystal of mesoscopic Fe(8) single-molecule magnets is an experimental realization of the quantum Ising model in a transverse field, with dipolar interactions. Quantum annealing has enabled us to explore the quantum and classical phase transitions between the paramagnetic and ferromagnetic phases, at thermodynamical equilibrium. The phase diagram and critical exponents that we obtain agree with expectations for the mean-field universality class.     

New Results for the Correlation Functions of the Ising Model and the Transverse Ising Chain

In this paper we show how an infinite system of coupled Toda-type nonlinear differential equations derived by one of us can be used efficiently to calculate the time-dependent pair-correlations in the Ising chain in a transverse field. The results are seen to match extremely well long large-time asymptotic expansions newly derived here. For our initial conditions we use new long asymptotic expansions for the equal-time pair correlation functions of the transverse Ising chain, extending an old result of T.T. Wu for the 2d Ising model. Using this one can also study the equal-time wavevector-dependent correlation function of the quantum chain, a.k.a. the q-dependent diagonal susceptibility in the 2d Ising model, in great detail with very little computational effort. Supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant PHY 07-58139 and by the Australian Research Council under Project ID: LX0989627.     

Enhancement of next-nearest-neighbouring entanglement in quantum Ising spin chain

Using the method of the Jordan--Wigner transformation for solving different spin--spin correlation functions, we have investigated the generation of next-nearest-neighbouring entanglement in a one-dimensional quantum Ising spin chain with the Gaussian distribution impurities of exchange couplings and external magnetic fields taken into account. The maximal value of entanglement between the next-nearest-neighbouring qubits in the transverse Ising model was analysed in detail by varying the effectively controlled parameters such as interchange coupling, magnetic field and the system impurity. For such systems, where both exchange couplings and external magnetic field disorder appear, we show that it is possible to achieve next-nearest-neighbouring entanglement better than the previously discussed pure Ising spin chain case. We also show that the Gaussian distribution impurity can induce next-nearest-neighbouring entanglement, which can be used as a means to characterize quantum phase transition.     

横向随机晶场Ising模型的相图和磁化行为研究

在有效场理论和切断近似框架内，选择自旋S=1的二维方格子，研究横向随机晶场Ising模型的相图和磁化行为，重点是横向随机晶场浓度和晶场比率对相图和磁化的影响.给出了i>T-D_x空间的相图和m-T空间的磁化图.在晶场稀疏情况下，负晶场方向存在临界温度的峰值，正方向可出现重入现象.晶场比率取+0.5和-0.5时，磁有序相范围缩小，特别是晶场比率取-0.5时，随晶场浓度的降低，临界温度峰值从横向晶场负方向渡越到正方向.固定某一负晶场值，不同晶场比率的磁化行为有明显差异.同时与纵向稀疏晶场Ising模型结果进行有意义的比较. 关键词： 横向随机晶场Ising模型 相图 磁化行为     

Quantum-like criticality for a classical transverse Ising model in 4–<Emphasis Type="Italic">ε</Emphasis> dimensions

We investigate the low-temperature critical properties of a classical Ising model in a transverse field. This is performed by applying the conventional Wilson renormalization group to the related Ginzburg-Landau functional emerging from a Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation. Results in 4–ε dimensions provide a low temperature critical scenario very similar to that found for the quantum counterpart. Remarkably, we find that the discrimination between the two cases essentially lies on the different values of the shift exponent which characterizes the behavior of the phase boundary close to the zero-temperature critical point. This feature suggests that, decreasing the temperature, the observation of different renormalized critical exponents may signal activation of genuine quantum critical fluctuations.     

Model study of dissipation in quantum phase transitions

We consider a prototypical system of an infinite range transverse field Ising model coupled to a bosonic bath. By integrating out the bosonic degrees, an effective anisotropic Heisenberg model is obtained for the spin system. The phase diagram of the latter is calculated as a function of coupling to the heat bath and the transverse magnetic field. Collective excitations at low temperatures are assessed within a spin-wave like analysis that exhibits a vanishing energy gap at the quantum critical point. We also discuss the possible realization and application of the model in different physical systems.     

Molecular nanomagnets as quantum simulators

Quantum simulators are controllable systems that can be used to simulate other quantum systems. Here we focus on the dynamics of a chain of molecular qubits with interposed antiferromagnetic dimers. We theoretically show that its dynamics can be controlled by means of uniform magnetic pulses and used to mimic the evolution of other quantum systems, including fermionic ones. We propose two proof-of-principle experiments based on the simulation of the Ising model in a transverse field and of the quantum tunneling of the magnetization in a spin-1 system.     

Quantum zigzag transition in ion chains

A string of trapped ions at zero temperature exhibits a structural phase transition to a zigzag structure, tuned by reducing the transverse trap potential or the interparticle distance. The transition is driven by transverse, short wavelength vibrational modes. We argue that this is a quantum phase transition, which can be experimentally realized and probed. Indeed, by means of a mapping to the Ising model in a transverse field, we estimate the quantum critical point in terms of the system parameters, and find a finite, measurable deviation from the critical point predicted by the classical theory. A measurement procedure is suggested which can probe the effects of quantum fluctuations at criticality. These results can be extended to describe the transverse instability of ultracold polar molecules in a one-dimensional optical lattice.