Discrete and generalized phase space techniques in critical quantum spin chains

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2019.125932MaRDI QIDQ2232584zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zakaria Mzaouali, Steve Campbell, Morad El Baz

Publication date 6 October 2021

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.09164

zbMATH Keywords

quantum correlationsquantum phase transitionsquantum spin chainsWigner function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum state spaces, operational and probabilistic concepts (81P16) Entanglement measures, concurrencies, separability criteria (81P42) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Quantum optics (81V80) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30)

Abstract: We apply the Wigner function formalism from quantum optics via two approaches, Wootters' discrete Wigner function and the generalized Wigner function, to detect quantum phase transitions in critical spin-$frac12$ systems. We develop a general formula relating the phase space techniques and the thermodynamical quantities of spin models, which we apply to single, bipartite and multi-partite systems governed by the $XY$ and the $XXZ$ models. Our approach allows us to introduce a novel way to represent, detect, and distinguish first-, second- and infinite-order quantum phase transitions. Furthermore, we show that the factorization phenomena of the $XY$ model is only directly detectable by quantities based on the square root of the bipartite reduced density matrix. We establish that phase space techniques provide a simple, experimentally promising tool in the study of many-body systems and we discuss their relation with measures of quantum correlations and quantum coherence.

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Uses Software

• SciPy
• NumPy
• Matplotlib
• QuTiP

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