The partition function zeroes of quantum critical points

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2008.10.011zbMATH Open1192.82020arXiv0810.2085OpenAlexW2124876489WikidataQ57949762 ScholiaQ57949762MaRDI QIDQ985897FDOQ985897

Authors: P. R. Crompton 

Publication date: 6 August 2010

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Lee-Yang theorem for the zeroes of the partition function is not strictly applicable to quantum systems because the zeroes are defined in units of the fugacity $e^{hDeltaau}$, and the Euclidean-time lattice spacing $Deltaau$ can be divergent in the infrared (IR). We recently presented analytic arguments describing how a new space-Euclidean time zeroes expansion can be defined, which reproduces Lee and Yang's scaling but avoids the unresolved branch points associated with the breaking of nonlocal symmetries such as parity. We now present a first numerical analysis for this new zeros approach for a quantum spin chain system. We use our scheme to quantify the renormalization group flow of the physical lattice couplings to the IR fixed point of this system. We argue that the generic Finite-Size Scaling (FSS) function of our scheme is identically the entanglement entropy of the lattice partition function and, therefore, that we are able to directly extract the central charge, $c$, of the quantum spin chain system using conformal predictions for the scaling of the entanglement entropy.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.2085

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zbMATH Keywords

partition functionentanglement entropyLee-Yang theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Renormalization group methods in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B28)

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