Multiply degenerate exceptional points and quantum phase transitions

DOI10.1007/S10773-014-2493-YzbMATH Open1329.81037arXiv1412.6634OpenAlexW3099622802MaRDI QIDQ904477FDOQ904477

Authors: Denis Borisov, František Ruzicka, Miloslav Znojil 

Publication date: 13 January 2016

Published in: International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The realization of a genuine phase transition in quantum mechanics requires that at least one of the Kato's exceptional-point parameters becomes real. A new family of finite-dimensional and time-parametrized quantum-lattice models with such a property is proposed and studied. All of them exhibit, at a real exceptional-point time $t=0$, the Jordan-block spectral degeneracy structure of some of their observables sampled by Hamiltonian $H(t)$ and site-position $Q(t)$. The passes through the critical instant $t=0$ are interpreted as schematic simulations of non-equivalent versions of the Big-Bang-like quantum catastrophes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.6634

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zbMATH Keywords

phase transitionsquantum mechanicscryptohermitian observablesreal exceptional pointsspectra and pseudospectra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26)

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