arXiv:1101.1713 · Physical Review B
Fidelity susceptibility and general quench near an anisotropic quantum critical point
Victor Mukherjee, Amit Dutta
Abstract
We study the scaling behavior of fidelity susceptibility density $({\ensuremath{\chi}}_{\mathrm{f}})$ at or close to an anisotropic quantum critical point (AQCP) characterized by two different correlation length exponents ${\ensuremath{\nu}}_{||}$ and ${\ensuremath{\nu}}_{\ensuremath{\perp}}$ along parallel and perpendicular spatial directions, respectively. Our studies show that the response of the system due to a small change in the Hamiltonian near an AQCP is different from that seen near an isotropic QCP. In particular, for a finite system with linear dimension ${L}_{||}$ (${L}_{\ensuremath{\perp}}$) in the parallel (perpendicular) directions, the maximum value of ${\ensuremath{\chi}}_{\mathrm{f}}$ is found to increase in a power-law fashion with ${L}_{||}$ for small ${L}_{||}$, with an exponent depending on both ${\ensuremath{\nu}}_{||}$ and ${\ensuremath{\nu}}_{\ensuremath{\perp}}$ and eventually crosses over to a scaling with ${L}_{\ensuremath{\perp}}$ for ${L}_{||}^{1/{\ensuremath{\nu}}_{||}}\ensuremath{\gtrsim}{L}_{\ensuremath{\perp}}^{1/{\ensuremath{\nu}}_{\ensuremath{\perp}}}$. We also propose scaling relations of heat density and defect density generated following a quench starting from an AQCP and connect them to a generalized fidelity susceptibility. These predictions are verified exactly both analytically and numerically taking the example of a Hamiltonian showing a semi-Dirac band-crossing point.