量子相变与量子纠缠

作为量子体系一种内在的非局域性关联,量子纠缠已经成为一个可利用的重要资源并广泛应用于许多领域.强关联体系中的量子相变,作为凝聚态理论中的一个重要现象,也一直是人们研究的热点.本文介绍了量子纠缠的定义,纠缠的判据,以及纠缠的度量.接着,通过一个具体模型对如何利用量子纠缠描述量子相变进行讨论和分析.研究发现,在强关联体系量子相变中量子纠缠扮演着非常重要的角色.     

量子相变中的对数修正被大规模量子蒙特卡罗模拟证实

正相变和临界现象在自然界中普遍存在,是既具有特异性又具有普适性的物理学行为[1]。量子临界现象[2]则是这其中普适性的神奇代表:一个由微观的量子哈密顿量所描述的体系,在临界点附近的行为(包括普适类、临界指数等)却可以完全被体系的宏观性质所决定(如体系和序参量的对称性与维度)。过去,在实验中观测量子相变十分困难,因为需要在临界点附近对温度和量子调控参数(比如磁场、压力)进行精细调节。因此,对于量子相变的研究长期集中在理     

量子相变与几何相位

量子相变是凝聚态物理中的重要研究课题，而几何相位的发现是近几十年来量子力学中的重要进展，它们毫无关联地各自发展。但最近的研究表明，它们之间有密切联系：多体体系基态的几何相位在量子相变点附近具有标度性；不可收缩的几何相位可用来作为量子相变的标志等，文章将介绍最近在量子相变和几何相位的关系方面的研究进展，并用XY自旋链模型来详细说明．这些结果应会吸引凝聚态和几何相位领域工作的研究人员的关注和兴趣。     

含有Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya相互作用的自旋1键交替海森伯模型的量子相变和拓扑序标度

利用张量网络表示的无限矩阵乘积态算法研究了含有Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM)相互作用的键交替海森伯模型的量子相变和临界标度行为.基于矩阵乘积态的基态波函数计算了系统的量子纠缠熵及非局域拓扑序.数据表明,随着键交替强度变化,系统从拓扑有序的Haldane相转变为局域有序的二聚化相.同时DM相互作用抑制了系统的二聚化,并最终打破系统的完全二聚化.另外,通过对相变点附近二聚化序的一阶导数和长程弦序的数值拟合,分别得到了此模型相变的特征临界指数a和b的值.结果表明,随着DM相互作用强度的增强, a逐渐减小,同时b逐渐增大. DM相互作用强度影响着此模型的临界行为.针对此模型的临界性质的研究,揭示了量子自旋相互作用的彼此竞争机制,对今后研究含有DM相互作用的自旋多体系统中拓扑量子相变临界行为提供一定的借鉴与参考.     

一维扩展量子罗盘模型的拓扑序和量子相变

应用矩阵乘积态表示的无限虚时间演化块算法,研究了扩展的量子罗盘模型.为了深入研究该模型的长程拓扑序和量子相变,基于奇数键和偶数键,引入了奇数弦关联和偶数弦关联,计算了保真度、奇数弦关联、偶数弦关联、奇数弦关联饱和性与序参量.弦关联表现出三种截然不同的行为:衰减为零、单调饱和与振荡饱和.基于弦关联的以上特征,给出了量子罗盘模型的基态序参量相图.在临界区,局域磁化强度和单调奇弦序参量的临界指数β=1/8表明:相变的普适类是Ising类型.此外,保真度探测到的相变点、连续性与非连续性和序参量的结果一致.     

两腿XXZ自旋梯子模型的量子相变与量子临界现象

对于无限大尺寸两腿自旋1/2的XXZ自旋梯子模型,通过运用基于随机行走的张量网络(TN)算法数值模拟出基态波函数,首次尝试研究自旋梯子模型的约化保真度、普适序参量、纠缠熵等物理观测量,并系统研究基态保真度的三维挤点与二维分叉、约化保真度的分叉、局域序参量、普适序参量、纠缠熵和量子相变之间存在的关联关系.基于张量网络表示的算法在任意随机选择初始状态时,可以得到两腿XXZ量子自旋梯子系统简并的对称破缺基态波函数,该基态波函数是由于Z2对称破缺引起的.本文期望所提供的方法可为进一步研究凝聚态物质中热力学极限下的强关联电子量子晶格自旋梯子系统的量子相变和量子临界现象提供一种更有效的强大的工具.     

量子临界性

2011年2月出版的Physics Today杂志上,美国哈佛大学物理学教授Subir Sachdev和德国马克斯.普朗克固体物理研究所Bernhard Keimer所长撰文,就"量子临界性"做了详尽的阐述并指出,在绝对零温度下,由量子涨落导致的相变似乎是一个没有实验意义的、抽象的理论概念,但它却是我们理解众多实验现象的关键.     

激光驱动下腔与玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚中的量子相变

Dicke模型中的量子相变在三十多年前已被预言,该模型描述的是N个二能级原子与单模腔场集体耦合的系统.在标准Dicke模型的基础上加入原子光的非线性相互作用和含时外场驱动,使用含时幺正变换和Holstein-Primafoff变换方法从理论上推导出基态能量表达式.并且给出了丰富的相图,而且这些性质最近已有文献从实验上验证.本文主要呈现了非线性相互作用和外场驱动对量子相变的影响.     

基于无限纠缠投影对态(iPEPS)算法的二维XYX模型的量子相变

运用无限纠缠投影对态(iPEPS)表示的张量网络(TN)算法,任意选取初态对二维无限正方格子XYX量子模型进行数值模拟演化,从而得到两个不同的具有简并对称破缺的基态波函数。在二维XYX量子模型中,既可以运用普适序参量的性质,又可以运用约化密度矩阵保真度的分叉行为,来确定这个系统由自发对称性破缺引起的量子相变的临界点及量子相变的类型。即基于iPEPS算法,从普适序参量和约化密度矩阵保真度的角度,来刻画二维XYX量子多体系统的相变,其为典型的Ising普适类的二级相变。因而,运用iPEPS算法通过普适序参量和约化密度矩阵保真度,可以确定一个量子系统经历的量子相变,这为研究热力学极限下的强关联电子量子系统的量子相变和量子临界现象提供了一种更有效的强大的工具。     

一维自旋1键交替XXZ链中的量子纠缠和临界指数

利用基于张量网络表示的矩阵乘积态算法以及无限虚时间演化块抽取方法,本文研究了一维无限格点自旋1的键交替反铁磁XXZ海森伯模型中的量子相变.分别计算了系统的von Neumann熵、单位格点保真度和序参量,从而得到了系统随键交替强度的变化从拓扑有序Néel相到局域有序二聚化相的量子相变点.我们用矩阵乘积态方法拟合出了相变的中心荷c?0.5,表明此相变属于二维经典的Ising普适类.另外,通过对拓扑Néel序的数值拟合,我们得到了相变点处的特征临界指数β′=0.236和γ′=0.838.     

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.     

Optically induced phase transition of excitons in coupled quantum dots

The weak classical light excitations in many semiconductor quantum dots have been chosen as important solid- state quantum systems for processing quantum information and implementing quantum computing. For strong classical light we predict theoretically a novel phase transition as a function of magnitude of this classical light from the deformed to the normal phases in resonance ease, and the essential features of criticality such as the scaling behaviour, critical exponent and universality are also present in this paper.     

Mesoscopic effects in the quantum Hall regime

We report results of a study of (integer) quantum Hall transitions in a single or multiple Landau levels for non-interacting electrons in disordered two-dimensional systems, obtained by projecting a tight-binding Hamiltonian to the corresponding magnetic subbands. In finite-size systems, we find that mesoscopic effects often dominate, leading to apparent non-universal scaling behavior in higher Landau levels. This is because localization length, which grows exponentially with Landau level index, exceeds the system sizes amenable to the numerical study at present. When band mixing between multiple Landau levels is present, mesoscopic effects cause a crossover from a sequence of quantum Hall transitions for weak disorder to classical behavior for strong disorder. This behavior may be of relevance to experimentally observed transitions between quantum Hall states and the insulating phase at low magnetic fields.     

Finite-temperature scaling of quantum coherence near criticality in a spin chain

We explore quantum coherence, inherited from Wigner-Yanase skew information, to analyzequantum criticality in the anisotropic XY chain model at finite temperature. Based on theexact solutions of the Hamiltonian, the quantum coherence contained in a nearest-neighborspin pairs reduced density matrix ρ is obtained. The first-order derivative of thequantum coherence is non-analytic around the critical point at sufficient low temperature.The finite-temperature scaling behavior and the universality are verified numerically. Inparticular, the quantum coherence can also detect the factorization transition in such amodel at sufficient low temperature. We also show that quantum coherence contained indistant spin pairs can characterize quantum criticality and factorization phenomena atfinite temperature. Our results imply that quantum coherence can serve as an efficientindicator of quantum criticality in such a model and shed considerable light on therelationships between quantum phase transitions and quantum information theory at finitetemperature.     

Fidelity spectrum: A tool to probe the property of a quantum phase

Fidelity measures the similarity between two states and is widely adapted by the condensed matter community as a probe of quantum phase transitions in many-body systems. Despite its success in witnessing quantum critical points,information about the fine structure of a quantum phase one can get from this approach is still limited. Here, we proposed a scheme called fidelity spectrum. By studying the fidelity spectrum, one can obtain information about the characteristics of a phase. In particular, we investigated the spectra in the one-dimensional transverse-field Ising model and the twodimensional Kitaev model on a honeycomb lattice. It was found that the spectra have qualitative differences in the critical and non-critical regions of the two models. From the distributions of them, the dominating k modes in a particular phase could also be captured.     

Power-law scalings in weakly-interacting Bose gases at quantum criticality

Weakly interacting quantum systems in low dimensions have been investigated for a long time, but there still remain a number of open questions and a lack of explicit expressions of physical properties of such systems. In this work, we find power-law scalings of thermodynamic observables in low-dimensional interacting Bose gases at quantum criticality. We present a physical picture for these systems with the repulsive interaction strength approaching zero; namely, the competition between the kinetic and interaction energy scales gives rise to power-law scalings with respect to the interaction strength in characteristic thermodynamic observables. This prediction is supported by exact Bethe ansatz solutions in one dimension, demonstrating a simple 1/3-power-law scaling of the critical entropy per particle. Our method also yields results in agreement with a non-perturbative renormalization-group computation in two dimensions. These results provide a new perspective for understanding many-body phenomena induced by weak interactions in quantum gases.     

Quantum phase transition by employing trace distance along with the density matrix renormalization group

We use an alternative method to investigate the quantum criticality at zero and finite temperature using trace distance along with the density matrix renormalization group. It is shown that the average correlation measured by the trace distance between the system block and environment block in a DMRG sweep is able to detect the critical points of quantum phase transitions at finite temperature. As illustrative examples, we study spin-1 XXZ chains with uniaxial single-ion-type anisotropy and the Heisenberg spin chain with staggered coupling and external magnetic field. It is found that the trace distance shows discontinuity at the critical points of quantum phase transition and can be used as an indicator of QPTs.     

Steered Quantum Coherence as a Signature of Topological Quantum Phase Transitions in the Extended XY Model

In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in exploring coherence measures and correlation measures to characterize topological quantum phase transitions (TQPTs). Here, motivated by the continued push in this direction, the steered quantum coherence (SQC) in the extended XY model is studied to analyze its capability in characterizing TQPTs. It is shown that the first derivative of SQC succeeds in signaling different critical points of TQPTs. In particular, it is found that the SQC is a long-range correlation and the first derivative of SQC can always accurately identify TQPTs for different site distance.