Area law violations and quantum phase transitions in modified Motzkin walk spin chains
Area law violations and quantum phase transitions in modified Motzkin walk spin chains
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改进的莫茨金步行自旋链中的区域违法和量子相变
DOI:
10.1088/1742-5468/aa9dcb
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发表时间:
2017
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通讯作者:
Pramod Padmanabhan
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作者:
Fumihiko Sugino;Pramod Padmanabhan
Area law violations for entanglement entropy in the form of a square root have recently been studied for one-dimensional frustration-free quantum systems based on the Motzkin walks and their variations. Here we consider a Motzkin walk with a different Hilbert space on each step of the walk spanned by the elements of a symmetric inverse semigroup with the direction of each step governed by its algebraic structure. This change alters the number of paths allowed in the Motzkin walk and introduces a ground state degeneracy that is sensitive to boundary perturbations. We study the frustration-free spin chains based on three symmetric inverse semigroups, S13, S23 and S12. The system based on S13 and S23 provides examples of quantum phase transitions in one dimension, with the former exhibiting a transition between the area law and a logarithmic violation of the area law and the latter providing an example of transition from logarithmic scaling to a square root scaling in the system size, mimicking a colored S13 system. The system with S12 is much simpler and produces states that continue to obey the area law.
DOI:
10.1088/1751-8121/aa8dbc
发表时间:
2017
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Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
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作者:
Chen, Xiao;Fradkin, Eduardo;Witczak-Krempa, William
通讯作者:
Witczak-Krempa, William