Variational Study of the Two‐Impurity Spin–Boson Model with a Common Ohmic Bath: Ground‐State Phase Transitions

DOI10.1002/ANDP.201800120arXiv1908.09245WikidataQ129221447 ScholiaQ129221447MaRDI QIDQ6084098FDOQ6084098

Authors: Nengji Zhou, Yuyu Zhang, Zhi-Guo Lü, Yang Zhao 

Publication date: 31 October 2023

Published in: Annalen der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: By means of a trial wave function, the multi-D${}_1$ ansatz, extensive variational calculations with more than ten thousand parameters have been carried out to study quantum phase transitions in the ground states of a two-impurity system embedded in a common Ohmic bath of bosons. Quantum criticality in both the impurity system and the Ohmic bosonic bath is investigated with relevant transition points and critical exponents determined accurately. With the linear grid of the Ohmic spectral density, our numerical calculations produce a much better description of the ground states with lower energies than other calculations employing a logarithmic grid with a discretization factor far greater than unity. It offers a possible solution to the considerable controversy on the critical coupling in the literature. Moreover, the ground-state phase transition is inferred to be of first order in the presence of strong antiferromagnetic spin-spin couplin}, at variance with that in the ferromagnetic regime or in the absence of spin-spin coupling where the transition belongs to the Kosterlitz-Thouless universality class.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.09245

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zbMATH Keywords

variational methodquantum phase transitionsspin-Boson model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum theory (81-XX)

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