We study the scaling behavior of the fidelity (F ) in the thermodynamic limit using the examples of a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid in one dimension and the Kitaev model on a honeycomb lattice. We show that the thermodynamic fidelity inside the gapless as well as gapped phases follow powerlaw scalings, with the power given by some of the critical exponents of the system. The generic scaling forms of F for an anisotropic quantum critical point for both thermodynamic and nonthermodynamic limits have been derived and verified for the Kitaev model. The behavior of F inside the gapless phase of the Kitaev model is found to depend strongly on its distance from the anisotropic quantum critical point. Finally, we consider a rotation of each spin in the Kitaev model around the z axis and calculate F through the overlap between the ground states for angle of rotation η and η+ dη, respectively. We thereby show that the associated geometric phase vanishes. We have supplemented our analytical calculations with numerical simulations wherever necessary.
We study the scaling behavior of the fidelity (
F) in the thermodynamic limit using the examples of a system of Dirac fermions in one dimension and the Kitaev model on a honeycomb lattice. We show that the thermodynamic fidelity inside the gapless as well as gapped phases follow power-law scalings, with the power given by some of the critical exponents of the system. The generic scaling forms of
F for an anisotropic quantum critical point for both the thermodynamic and nonthermodynamic limits have been derived and verified for the Kitaev model. The interesting scaling behavior of
F inside the gapless phase of the Kitaev model is also discussed. Finally, we consider a rotation of each spin in the Kitaev model around the
z axis and calculate
F through the overlap between the ground states for the angle of rotation $\ensuremath{\eta}$ and $\ensuremath{\eta}+d\ensuremath{\eta}$, respectively. We thereby show that the associated geometric phase vanishes. We have supplemented our analytical calculations with numerical simulations wherever necessary.