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arXiv:0902.1669 · Physical Review E

Spontaneous symmetry breaking and bifurcations in ground-state fidelity for quantum lattice systems

Jian-Hui Zhao, Honglei Wang, Bo Li, Huan-Qiang Zhou

Published Dec 21, 2010• 33 citations
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Abstract

Spontaneous symmetry breaking occurs in a system when its Hamiltonian possesses a certain symmetry, whereas the ground-state wave functions do not preserve it. This provides such a scenario that a bifurcation, which breaks the symmetry, occurs when some control parameter crosses its critical value. It is unveiled that the ground-state fidelity per lattice site exhibits such a bifurcation for quantum lattice systems undergoing quantum phase transitions. The significance of this result lies in the fact that the ground-state fidelity per lattice site is universal, in the sense that it is model independent, in contrast to (model-dependent) order parameters. This fundamental quantity may be computed by exploiting the developed tensor network algorithms on infinite-size lattices. We illustrate the scheme in terms of the quantum Ising model in a transverse magnetic field and the spin-1/2 XYX model in an external magnetic field on an infinite-size lattice in one spatial dimension.

DOI
10.1103/physreve.82.061127

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Abstract This paper explores an interesting relationship between the ground-state fidelity quantum phase transitions and bifurcations per lattice site, and proposes a universal order parameter for the quantum Ising model for a square lattice of infinite-size in two spatial dimensions as a prototype model with symmetry breaking order. The approach is based on computing ground-state wave functions using a tensor network algorithm utilizing a representation with infinite projected entangled-pair states. The results can be applied to any systems with symmetry breaking order, because in the conventional Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson paradigm a quantum system subjected to a phase transition exhibits spontaneous symmetry breaking quantified by a local order parameter. A reduced fidelity bifurcation between two different reduced density matrices is also explored.
For any translation-invariant quantum lattice system with a symmetry group G, we propose a practical and universal construction of order parameters which identify quantum phase transitions with symmetry-breaking order. They are defined in terms of the fidelity between a ground state and its symmetry-transformed counterpart, and are computed through tensor network representations of the ground-state wave function. To illustrate our scheme, we consider three quantum systems on an infinite lattice in one spatial dimension, namely, the quantum Ising model in a transverse magnetic field, the quantum spin-1/2XYX model in an external magnetic field, and the quantum spin-1 XXZ model with single-ion anisotropy. All these models have symmetry group Z(2) and exhibit broken-symmetry phases. We also discuss the role of the order parameters in identifying factorized states.
Spontaneous symmetry breaking in quantum phase transitions leads to a system having degenerate ground states in its broken-symmetry phase. In order to detect all possible degenerate ground states for a broken-symmetry phase, we introduce a quantum fidelity defined as an overlap measurement between a system ground state and an arbitrary reference state. If a system has N-fold degenerate ground states in a broken-symmetry phase, the quantum fidelity is shown to have N different values with respect to an arbitrarily chosen reference state. The quantum fidelity then exhibits an N-multiple bifurcation as an indicator of a quantum phase transition without knowing any detailed broken symmetry between a broken-symmetry phase and a symmetry phase as a system parameter crosses its critical value (i.e., a multiple bifurcation point). Each order parameter, characterizing a broken-symmetry phase from each degenerate ground state reveals an N-multiple bifurcation. Furthermore, it is shown that it is possible to specify how each order parameter calculated from degenerate ground states transforms under a subgroup of a symmetry group of the Hamiltonian. Examples are given through study of the quantum q-state Potts models with a transverse magnetic field by employing tensor network algorithms based on infinite-size lattices. For any q, a general relation between the local order parameters is found to clearly show the subgroup of the Z_{q} symmetry group. In addition, we systematically discuss criticality in the q-state Potts model.
We have investigated an intriguing connection between bifurcations, reduced fidelity per lattice site, local order parameter, universal order parameter, entropy and quantum phase transitions in the ground state for quantum three-state Potts model with two coupled infinite-size ladder system, in the context of the tensor network algorithm. The tensor network algorithm produces degenerate symmetry-breaking ground-state wave functions arising from the Z3 symmetry breaking, each of results from a randomly chosen initial state. We expect that our approach might provide further insights into critical phenomena in quantum many-body infinite lattice systems in condensed matter physics.