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Communications in Theoretical Physics

Grüneisen ratio quest for self-duality of quantum criticality in a spin-1/2 XY chain with Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction

Linjie Ding, Yuan 园 Zhong 钟

Published May 27, 2021• 3 citations
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Abstract The quantum phase transition (QPT) and quantum criticality of an anisotropic spin-1/2 XY chain under the interplay of magnetic field and Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya (DM) interaction, which is interpreted as an electric field, are investigated, wherein the anisotropic parameter plays a similar role as the superconducting pairing gap in the interacting Kitaev topological superconductor model that protects the topological order. It is shown that the thermal Drude weight is a good quantity to characterize the gapped ( D th = 0) and gapless ( D th > 0) ground states. The continuous QPT is marked by a quantum critical point (QCP) associated with entropy accumulation, which is manifested by a characteristic Güneisen ratio (GR) with or without self-duality symmetry. It is shown that at a self-dual QCP, the GR keeps a finite value as T → 0, while at a general QCP without self-duality symmetry, it displays a power-law temperature dependent divergence: Γ( T , r c ) ∼± T −1 , which provides a novel thermodynamic means for probing QPT.

DOI
10.1088/1572-9494/ac061d

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The Gr\"uneisen ratio (GR) has emerged as a superb tool for the diagnosis of quantum phase transitions; it diverges algebraically upon approaching critical points of continuous phase transitions. However, this paradigm has been challenged recently by observations of a finite GR for self-dual criticality and divergent GR at symmetry-enhanced first-order transitions. To unveil the fascinating GR further, we exemplify the idea by studying an exactly solvable quantum Ising model with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, which harbors a ferromagnetic phase, a paramagnetic phase, and a chiral Luttinger liquid. Although the self-dual criticality of the ferromagnetic-paramagnetic transition is undermined by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, we find that the GR at the transition is still finite albeit with an increasing value, signifying a proximate self-dual relation. By contrast, the GR at the transition between the gapped ferromagnetic phase and the gapless Luttinger liquid diverges and changes its sign when crossing the first-order transition. This implies that the GR could also probe the first-order transition between the gapped and gapless phases.
Up to now, probing the quantum phase transition (QPT) and quantum critical (QC) phenomena at finite temperatures in one-dimensional (1D) spin systems still lacks an in-depth understanding. Herein, we study the QPT and thermodynamics of 1D spin-1/2 anisotropic Heisenberg antiferromagnetic chains by Green’s function theory. The quantum phase diagram is renormalized by the anisotropy (∆), which manifests a quantum critical point (QCP) hc = 1 + ∆ signaling the transition from gapless Tomonaga–Luttinger liquid (TLL) to gapped ferromagnetic (FM) state, demonstrated by the magnetic entropy and thermal Drude weight. At low temperatures, it is shown that two crossover temperatures fan out a QC regime and capture the QCP via the linear extrapolation to zero temperature. In addition, around QCP, the QC scaling is performed by analyzing the entropy and thermal Drude weight to extract the critical exponents (α, δ, and β) that fulfill the Essamm–Fisher scaling law, which provides a novel thermodynamic means to detect QPT for experiment. Furthermore, scaling hypothesis equations with two rescaled manners are proposed to testify the scaling analysis, for which all the data points fall on a universal curve or two independent branches for the plot against rescaled field or temperature, implying the self-consistency and reliability of the obtained critical exponents.
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We study the quantum entanglement and quantum phase transition (QPT) of the anisotropic spin-1/21/21/2 XYXYXY model with staggered Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction by means of the quantum renormalization group method. The scaling of coupling constants and the critical points of the system are obtained. It is found that when the number of renormalization group iterations tends to infinity, the system exhibit a QPT between the spin-fluid and N\'eel phases which correspond with two saturated values of the concurrence for a given value of the strength of DM interaction. The DM interaction can enhance the entanglement and influence the QPT of the system. To gain further insight, the first derivative of the entanglement exhibit a nonanalytic behavior at the critical point and it directly associates with the divergence of the correlation length. This shows that the correlation length exponent is closely related to the critical exponent, i.e., the scaling behaviors of the system.