Continuous phase transition induced by non-Hermiticity in the quantum contact process model

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/ACFBC6MaRDI QIDQ6063353zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wenbin He, Jia-sen Jin, Fernando Iemini, H. Q. Lin

Publication date 7 November 2023

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.10718

zbMATH Keywords

comparison to Hermitian counterpartcontinuous pha sse transitionnon-Hermitian quantum contact processspin polarization and susceptibility

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Critical exponents in context of PDEs (35B33) Contact systems (37J55) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Nonselfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory including creation and destruction operators (81Q12) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26)

Abstract: Non-Hermitian quantum system recently have attracted a lots of attentions theoretically and experimentally. However, the results based on the single-particle picture may not apply to understand the property of non-Hermitian many-body system. How the property of quantum many-body system especially the phase transition will be affected by the non-hermiticity remains unclear. Here we study non-Hermitian quantum contact process (QCP) model, whose effective Hamiltonian is derived from Lindbladian master equation. We show that there is a continuous phase transition induced by the non-hermiticity in QCP. We also determine the critical exponents $$ of order parameter, $gamma$ of susceptibility and study the correlation and entanglement near phase transition. We observe that the order parameter and susceptibility display infinitely singularity even for finite size system, since non-hermiticity endow many-body system with different singular behaviour from classical phase transition. Moreover our results show that the phase transition have no counterpart in Hermitian case and belongs to completely different universality class.

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