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The Phase Diagram of the Quantum Curie-Weiss Model

L. Chayes, Nicholas Crawford, Dmitry Ioffe, Anna Levit

Published Jan 1, 2008• 29 citations
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ABSTRACT. This paper studies a generalization of the Curie-Weiss model (the Ising model on a complete graph) to quantum mechanics. Using a natural probabilistic representation of this model, we give a complete picture of the phase diagram of the model in the parameters of inverse temperature and transverse field strength. Further analysis computes the critical exponent for the decay of the order parameter in the approach to the critical curve and gives useful stability properties of a variational problem associated with the representation. 1.

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The statistical thermodynamics of the quantum spin- s XXZ Heisenberg model in the Weiss (mean-field) limit rests on the outer multiplicities of the irreducible representations in the Clebsch–Gordan decomposition of the n -fold spin- s tensor product, which determine the energy-level degeneracies and hence the partition function. Using known closed forms for these multiplicities in terms of generalized binomial coefficients of order 2 s + 1 , we write the exact finite-size partition function of the effective collective Hamiltonian and evaluate its thermodynamic limit by a large-deviation (Laplace) analysis validated against direct summations for systems of up to n = 10 4 spins. The free energy then follows from a two-parameter variational principle in the total spin and the magnetization per site. The ferromagnetic ordering is driven by the rotationally invariant part of the Hamiltonian, so that the Curie temperature T c = 1 3 J s ( s + 1 ) is independent of the anisotropy Δ, and the transition is of second order for every spin s , with classical mean-field exponents. The anisotropy reshapes the phase diagram: for Δ < 1 the field-driven first-order line of the isotropic ( Δ = 1 ) model opens into a dome of easy-plane ferromagnetic order, bounded by a continuous transition that restores the residual U(1) symmetry, and no first-order transitions or metastability occur throughout − 1 ≤ Δ < 1 ; the isotropic Curie-Weiss ferromagnet is recovered as Δ → 1. In two appendices we detail the asymptotics of the outer multiplicities down to the Gaussian-fluctuation prefactor and discuss the q -number and Jacobi-theta structures underlying the model, including the partial-theta-type structure that obstructs a standard theta-function reduction of the residual total-spin sum.