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arXiv:0805.2021 · Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Entanglement and quantum phase transition in the asymmetric Hubbard chain: density-matrix renormalization group calculations

Chan Wen-Ling, Shi-Jian Gu

Published Aug 1, 2008• 10 citations
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Abstract

We study the ground state quantum phase transition by means of entanglement in the one-dimensional asymmetric Hubbard model with open boundary conditions. The local entanglement between the middle two sites and the rest of the system, and the block entanglement between the left and right portions of the system, are calculated using the density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method. We find that the entanglement shows interesting scaling and singular behavior around the phase transition line.

DOI
10.1088/0953-8984/20/34/345217

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The ground-state phase diagram of the one-dimensional asymmetric Hubbard model at half-filling is studied by means of a perturbation expansion in the large-U limit and White's density matrix renormalization-group method for various values of the couplings. We argue that the introduction of asymmetry in the hopping parameters is a relevant perturbation for any repulsive U and drives the system into an ordered N\'eel antiferromagnet. The transition belongs to the Kosterlitz-Thouless universality class.
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We use the density-matrix renormalization group to calculate the phase diagram of the one-dimensional extended Hubbard chain at half filling. We find that for one specific U,U,U, the critical value of Vc{V}_{c}Vc​ for the charge-density-wave versus spin-density-wave phase transition is smaller than that predicted from the Monte Carlo simulation. Our results are consistent with the strong- and weak-coupling limit results, whereas the previous results from the Monte Carlo simulations deviate from the weak-coupling limit result. As UUU increases, we find that the first-order phase transition develops gradually. The tricritical point is estimated to occur at Uc=4−−6,{U}_{c}=4--6,Uc​=4−−6, not Uc=3{U}_{c}=3Uc​=3 as previously predicted from the Monte Carlo simulation. Due to the topological difference, we observe that with the periodic boundary condition, the phase transition is more abrupt for finite chains of length N=4MN=4MN=4M than for chains of N=4M+2,N=4M+2,N=4M+2, where MMM is an integer, for the same UUU and V.V.V. The difference will diminish in the thermodynamic limit.
We study the effect of different open boundary conditions on the insulating ground states of the one-dimensional extended Bose-Hubbard model at and near unit filling. To this end, we employ the density-matrix renormalization-group method with system sizes up to 250 sites. To characterize the system, various order parameters and entanglement entropies are calculated. When opposite edge potentials are added to the two ends of the chain, the inversion symmetry is explicitly broken, and the regular bulk phases appear. On the other hand, simple open boundary conditions often exhibit nondegenerate ground states with a domain wall in the middle of the chain, which induces a sign flip of an order parameter. Such a domain wall can lead to an algebraic behavior of the off diagonals of the single-particle density matrix. We show that this algebraic behavior adds only a finite contribution to the entanglement entropy, which does not diverge as the system size increases. Therefore, it is not an indication of a superfluid phase. We confirm this picture by analytical calculations based on an effective Hamiltonian for a domain wall.
We study the ground state of the one-dimensional extended Hubbard model at half filling using the entanglement entropy calculated by density matrix renormalization-group techniques. We apply curve fitting and scaling methods to accurately identify a second-order critical point as well as a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless critical point. Using open boundary conditions and medium-sized lattices with very small truncation errors, we are able to achieve similar accuracy to that of previous authors. We also report observations of finite-size and boundary effects that can be remedied with careful pinning.