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arXiv:1908.01824 · Physical Review A

Information measures for local quantum phase transitions: Lattice bosons in a one-dimensional harmonic trap

Yicheng Zhang, Lev Vidmar, Marcos Rigol

Published Nov 13, 2019• 7 citations
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Abstract

We study ground-state quantum entanglement in the one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model in the presence of a harmonic trap. We focus on two transitions that occur upon increasing the characteristic particle density: the formation of a Mott-insulating domain with site occupation one at the center of the trap (lower transition) and the emergence of a superfluid domain at the center of the Mott-insulating one (upper transition). These transitions generate discontinuities in derivatives of the total energy and have been characterized by local (nonextensive) order parameters, so we refer to them as local quantum phase transitions. We show that a second derivative of the total energy is continuous with a kink at the lower transition, and that it is discontinuous at the upper transition. We also show that bipartite entanglement entropies are order parameters for those local quantum phase transitions. We use the density-matrix renormalization group and show that the transition points extracted from entanglement measures agree with the predictions of the local density approximation in the thermodynamic limit. We discuss how to determine the transition points from results in small systems, such as the ones realized in recent optical lattice experiments that measured the second-order Renyi entanglement entropy.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.100.053611

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"We studied the one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model, by means of the Density Matrix Renormalization Group (DMRG). The U parameter, which contains the Coulombian repulsion information, is fixed to U = 1 and it is performed a swept over the hopping parameter t. The entanglement is investigated by implementing the one-site, two-site and block von Neumann entropy looking for which of these measures give account of the quantum phase transition from Mott insulator to superfluid. The one-site and two-site entropy do not give information of the phase transition of the system. In contrast, the block entropy shows, in the Mott insulator phase a behavior that saturates rapidly to a finite value and in the superfluid phase shows a logarithmic behavior that agrees with the mean field theory. From the derivative of the block entropy average as a function of t we found the phase transition takes place at tc =0.15."
We study the Bose-Hubbard model using the finite size density matrix renormalization group method. We obtain a complete phase diagram for a system in the presence of a harmonic trap and compare it with that of the homogeneous system. The superfluid to the Mott-insulator phase transition is investigated using different experimental signatures of these phases in quantities such as momentum distribution, visibility, condensate fraction, and the total number of bosons at a particular density. The relationships between the various experimental signatures and the phase diagram are highlighted.
We investigate a quasi-one-dimensional system of trapped cold bosonic atoms in an optical lattice by using the density-matrix renormalization group to study the Bose-Hubbard model at T=0T=0T=0 for experimentally realistic numbers of lattice sites. It is shown that a properly rescaled one-particle density matrix characterizes superfluid versus insulating states just as in the homogeneous system. For typical parabolic traps we also confirm the widely used local-density approach for describing correlations in the limit of weak interaction. Finally, we note that the superfluid to Mott-insulating transition is seen most directly in the half-width of the interference peak.
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