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Communications in Theoretical Physics

Peculiar Quantum Phase Transitions and Hidden Supersymmetry in a Lipkin–Meshkov–Glick Model

Gang Chen, Liang Jiu-Qing

Published May 1, 2009• 0 citations
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Abstract

In this paper we theoretically report an unconventional quantum phase transition of a simple Lipkin–Meshkov–Glick model: an interacting collective spin system without external magnetic field. It is shown that this model with integer-spin can exhibit a first-order quantum phase transition between different disordered phases, and more intriguingly, possesses a hidden supersymmetry at the critical point. However, for half-integer spin we predict another first-order quantum phase transition between two different long-range-ordered phases with a vanishing energy gap, which is induced by the destructive topological quantum interference between the intanton and anti-instanton tunneling paths and accompanies spontaneously breaking of supersymmetry at the same critical point. We also show that, when the total spin-value varies from half-integer to integer this model can exhibit an abrupt variation of Berry phase from π to zero.

DOI
10.1088/0253-6102/51/5/25

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The Lipkin model of arbitrary particle number N is studied in terms of exact differential-operator representation of spin-operators from which we obtain the low-lying energy spectrum with the instanton method of quantum tunnelling. Our new observation is that the well-known quantum phase transition (QPT) can also occur in the finite- N model only if N is an odd number. We furthermore demonstrate a new type of QPT characterized by level-crossing which is induced by the geometric phase interference and is marvellously periodic with respect to the coupling parameter. Finally, the conventional QPT is understood intuitively from the tunnelling formulation in the thermodynamic limit.
We study the quantum critical behavior of networks consisting of Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick models with an anisotropic ferromagnetic coupling. We focus on the low-energy properties of the system within a mean-field approach and the quantum corrections around the mean-field solution. Our results show that the weak-coupling regime corresponds to the paramagnetic phase when the local field dominates the dynamics, but the local anisotropy leads to the existence of an exponentially degenerate ground state. In the strong-coupling regime, the ground state is twofold degenerate and possesses long-range magnetic ordering. Analytical results for a network with the ring topology are obtained.
Berry phases and quantum fidelities for interacting spins have attracted considerable attention, in particular in relation to entanglement properties of spin systems and quantum phase transitions. These efforts mainly focus either on spin pairs or the thermodynamic infinite spin limit, while studies of the multipartite case of a finite number of spins are rare. Here, we analyze Berry phases and quantum fidelities of the energetic ground state of a Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick (LMG) model consisting of three spin-1/2 particles (qubits). We find explicit expressions for the Berry phase and fidelity susceptibility of the full system as well as the mixed state Berry phase and partial-state fidelity susceptibility of its one- and two-qubit subsystems. We demonstrate a realization of a nontrivial magnetic monopole structure associated with local, coordinated rotations of the three-qubit system around the external magnetic field.
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Bipartite and global entanglement are analyzed for the ground state of a system of NNN spin-1∕21∕21∕2 particles interacting via a collective spin-spin coupling described by the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick Hamiltonian. Under certain conditions, which include the special case of supersymmetry, the ground state can be constructed analytically. In the case of antiferromagnetic coupling and for an even number of particles, the system has a finite energy gap and the ground state undergoes a smooth transition, as a function of the continuous anisotropy parameter $\ensuremath{\gamma}$, from a separable $(\ensuremath{\gamma}=\ensuremath{\infty})$ to a maximally entangled state $(\ensuremath{\gamma}=0)$. From the analytic expression for the ground state, the bipartite entanglement between two subsets of spins as well as the global entanglement are calculated. Despite the absence of a quantum phase transition a discontinuous change of the scaling of the bipartite entanglement with the number of spins in the subsystem is found at the isotropy point $\ensuremath{\gamma}=0$: While at $\ensuremath{\gamma}=0$ the entanglement grows logarithmically with the system size with no upper bound, it saturates for $\ensuremath{\gamma}\ensuremath{\ne}0$ at a level only depending on $\ensuremath{\gamma}$.