Fidelity between two Hamiltonians
J. M. Zhang
Abstract
Here N is the size of the Hilbert space. If g1 is very close to g2, one might expect that ψ (1) i ∼ ψ (2) i for 1 ≤ i ≤ N . That is, the eigenstates of H(g1) are not so much mixed to form the eigenstates of H(g2). However, if g1 is far away from g2, say, they are on the opposite side of each other to some critical point, one would expect each state in the second spectrum is a superposition of “a lot” (to be quantified somehow below) of states in the first spectrum. Intuitively, we say, the spectrum is greatly twisted as g is varied from g1 to g2. We want to characterize the extent of twisting. The strategy is like this. We want to find a one-to-one mapping between the two spectra, such that the sum of the overlaps inside each pair is maximized. That is, we want