We study many-body phase transitions in a one-dimensional ferromagnetic transversed field Ising model with an imaginary field, and show that the system exhibits three phase transitions: one second-order phase transition and two
PT phase transitions. The second-order phase transition occurring in the ground state is investigated via biorthogonal and self-normal entanglement entropy, for which we develop an approach to perform finite-size scaling theory to extract the central charge for small systems. Compared with the second-order phase transition, the first
PT transition is characterized by the appearance of an exceptional point in the full energy spectrum, while the second
PT transition only occurs in specific excited states. Furthermore, we interestingly show that both exceptional points are second-order in terms of scalings of imaginary parts of the energy. This work provides an exact solution for many-body phase transitions in non-Hermitian systems.
The loop model is an important model of statistical mechanics and has been extensively studied in two-dimensional lattices. However, it is still difficult to simulate the loop model directly in three-dimensional lattices, especially in lattices with coordination numbers larger than 3. In this paper, a cluster weight Ising model is proposed by introducing an additional cluster weight n in the partition function of the traditional Ising model. This model is equivalent to the loop model on the two-dimensional lattice, but on the three-dimensional lattice, it is still not very clear whether or not these models have the same universality. By using a Monte Carlo method with cluster updates and color assignment, we obtain the global phase diagram containing the paramagnetic and ferromagnetic phases. The phase transition between the two phases is second order at 1≤n<n_{cri} and first order at n≥n_{cri}, where n_{cri}≈2. The thermal exponent y_{t} is equal to the system dimension d when the first-order transition occurs. For the second-order transitions, the numerical estimation of y_{t} and the magnetic exponent y_{m}, shows that the universalities of the two models on the three-dimensional lattice are different. Our results are helpful in the understanding of some traditional statistical mechanics models.
We consider the antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 Ising model on the recursive tetrahedron lattice on which two elementary tetrahedrons are connected at each site. The model represents the simplest approximation of the antiferromagnetic Ising model on the real three-dimensional tetrahedron lattice which takes into account effects of frustration. An exact analytical solution of the model is found and discussed. It is shown that the model exhibits neither the first-order nor the second-order phase transitions. A detailed analysis of the magnetization of the model in the presence of the external magnetic field is performed and the existence of the magnetization plateaus for low temperatures is shown. All possible ground states of the model are found and discussed. The existence of nontrivial singular ground states is proven and exact explicit expressions for them are found.