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arXiv:cond-mat/0605460 · Physical Review B

Partial entropy in finite-temperature phase transitions

Junpeng Cao, Xiaoling Cui, Qi Zhang, Wengang Lu, Qian Niu, Yupeng Wang

Published May 3, 2007• 10 citations
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Abstract

It is shown that the von Neumann entropy, a measure of quantum entanglement, does have its classical counterpart in thermodynamic systems, which we call partial entropy. Close to the critical temperature, the partial entropy shows perfect finite-size scaling behavior even for quite small system sizes. This provides a powerful tool to quantify finite-temperature phase transitions as demonstrated on the classical Ising model on a square lattice and the ferromagnetic Heisenberg model on a cubic lattice.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.75.172401

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