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Physical Review C

Time-dependent Hartree-Fock dynamics and phase transition in Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model

Kit-Keung Kan, Peter C. Lichtner, Maria Dworzecka, James J. Griffin

Published Mar 1, 1980• 42 citations
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Abstract

The time-dependent Hartree-Fock solutions of the two-level Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model are studied by transforming the time-dependent Hartree-Fock equations into Hamilton's canonical form and analyzing the qualitative structure of the Hartree-Fock energy surface in the phase space. It is shown that as the interaction strength increases these time-dependent Hartree-Fock solutions undergo a qualitative change associated with the ground state phase transition previously studied in terms of coherent states. For twobody interactions stronger than the critical value, two types of time-dependent Hartree-Fock solutions (the "librations" and "rotations" in Hamilton's mechanics) exist simultaneously, while for weaker interactions only the rotations persist. It is also shown that the coherent states with the maximum total pseudospin value are determinants, so that time-dependent Hartree-Fock analysis is equivalent to the coherent state method.NUCLEAR STRUCTURE Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model, TDHF, transformation of TDHF equations to Hamilton's canonical form, coherent states, ground state phase transition.

DOI
10.1103/physrevc.21.1098

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The importance of ground-state correlations in the spectroscopy of a finite many-particle system, such as the nucleus, is investigated for the model Hamiltonian of Lipkin, Meshkov, and Glick. In particular, we have investigated their effect on the solution of the equations of motion for excitation energies, transition matrix elements, and the correlation energy of the ground state. Methods are studied for calculating the correlations needed to make the necessary corrections to the equations of motion. Also studied is the behavior, with increase of interaction strength, of the phase transition from the spherical to the strongly deformed intrinsic states, in the projected Hartree-Fock scheme.
An analysis of the classical and quantum phase transitions of the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model is presented. It is shown that the classical dynamics is ruled by the energy surface of the system. Applying the catastrophe formalism to this energy surface the separatrix is obtained. It determines the regions in the control parameter space where there are phase transitions. Special attention is given to the compositions of ground and first-excited energy states, which are well described by the even and odd SU(2) coherent states. Phase transitions are shown to be associated with a change in the wave functions from collective to single-particle behavior. Evaluating the distribution of nearest-neighbor spacings it is shown that the separatrix of the system emerges as a useful tool to describe the global behavior of the quantum-level structure and their corresponding wave functions.
The gauge-invariant periodic quantization method is applied to time-dependent states with definite parities in the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model. It is shown that the resulting discrete energy spectrum is free of discontinuity and predicts the correct number of states for all interaction strengths. It offers therefore a qualitative improvement over the gauge-invariant periodic quantized time-dependent Hartree-Fock states of this model.NUCLEAR STRUCTURE Time-dependent description of many-body bound states, gauge-invariant periodic quantization method, Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model, good-parity time-dependent states.
The structural instabilities or general nonthermodynamic phase transitions of the time-dependent Hartree-Fock flow on the Bloch sphere are investigated for different SU(2) model Hamiltonians by means of a simple geometrical construction. In particular, the generalized Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model is found to exhibit a variety of instabilities, opposite to the standard Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model which possesses only one ground-state (thermodynamic) phase transition. The relationship between the fixed points of the time-dependent Hartree-Fock flow and the tangency points between energy surfaces and the Bloch sphere is established. It is found that different Hamiltonians of the class under study give rise to flow patterns whose invariant sets may contain either rotations or librations, which in turn may be degenerate as well as nondegenerate, in contrast to previously investigated models.
The Lipkin–Meshkov–Glick is a simple, but not trivial, model of a quantum many-body system which allows us to solve the many-body Schrödinger equation without making any approximation. The model, which in its unperturbed case is composed only by two energy levels, includes two interacting terms. A first one, the [Formula: see text] interaction, which promotes or degrades pairs of particles, and a second one, the [Formula: see text] interaction, which scatters one particle in the upper and another in the lower energy level. In comparing this model with other approximation methods, the [Formula: see text] term interaction is often set to zero. In this paper, we show how the presence of this interaction changes the global structure of the system, generates degeneracies between the various eigenstates and modifies the energy eigenvalues structure. We present analytical solutions for systems of two and three particles and, for some specific cases, also for four, six and eight particles. The solutions for systems with more than eight particles are only numerical but their behavior can be well understood by considering the extrapolations of the analytical results. Of particular interest is the study of how the [Formula: see text] interaction affects the energy gap between the ground state and the first-excited state.