Detailed analysis of quantum phase transitions within the u(2) algebra

DOI10.1088/0253-6102/54/4/01zbMATH Open1218.81039arXiv0910.2341OpenAlexW3098455816MaRDI QIDQ3010169FDOQ3010169

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Publication date: 30 June 2011

Published in: Communications in Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We analyze in detail the quantum phase transitions that arise in models based on the $u(2)$ algebraic description for bosonic systems with two types of scalar bosons. First we discuss the quantum phase transition that occurs in hamiltonians that admix the two dynamical symmetry chains $u(2)supsetu(1)$ and $u(2)supsetso(2)$ by diagonalizing the problem exactly in the $u(1)$ basis. Then we apply the coherent state formalism to determine the energy functional. Finally we show that a quantum phase transition of a different nature, but displaying similar characteristics, may arise also within a single chain just by including higher order terms in the hamiltonian.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.2341

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zbMATH Keywords

Lie algebraalgebraic modelsquantum phase transitionsLipkin model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Atomic physics (81V45) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R15)

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