Signatures of quantum criticality in the complex inverse temperature plane

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Main Authors: Liu, Yang, Lv, Songtai, Yang, Yang, Zou, Haiyuan
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author Liu, Yang
Lv, Songtai
Yang, Yang
Zou, Haiyuan
author_facet Liu, Yang
Lv, Songtai
Yang, Yang
Zou, Haiyuan
contents Concepts of the complex partition functions and the Fisher zeros provide intrinsic statistical mechanisms for finite temperature and real time dynamical phase transitions. We extend the utility of these complexifications to quantum phase transitions. We exactly identify different Fisher zeros on lines or closed curves and elucidate their correspondence with domain-wall excitations or confined mesons for the one-dimensional transverse field Ising model. The crossover behavior of the Fisher zeros provides a fascinating picture for criticality near the quantum phase transition, where the excitation energy scales are quantitatively determined. We further confirm our results by tensor network calculations and demonstrate a clear signal of deconfined meson excitations from the disruption of the closed zero curves. Our results unambiguously show significant features of Fisher zeros for a quantum phase transition and open up a new route to explore quantum criticality.
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spellingShingle Signatures of quantum criticality in the complex inverse temperature plane
Liu, Yang
Lv, Songtai
Yang, Yang
Zou, Haiyuan
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Quantum Gases
High Energy Physics - Lattice
Quantum Physics
Concepts of the complex partition functions and the Fisher zeros provide intrinsic statistical mechanisms for finite temperature and real time dynamical phase transitions. We extend the utility of these complexifications to quantum phase transitions. We exactly identify different Fisher zeros on lines or closed curves and elucidate their correspondence with domain-wall excitations or confined mesons for the one-dimensional transverse field Ising model. The crossover behavior of the Fisher zeros provides a fascinating picture for criticality near the quantum phase transition, where the excitation energy scales are quantitatively determined. We further confirm our results by tensor network calculations and demonstrate a clear signal of deconfined meson excitations from the disruption of the closed zero curves. Our results unambiguously show significant features of Fisher zeros for a quantum phase transition and open up a new route to explore quantum criticality.
title Signatures of quantum criticality in the complex inverse temperature plane
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
Quantum Gases
High Energy Physics - Lattice
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.00813