We study the ground state quantum phase transition by means of entanglement in the one-dimensional asymmetric Hubbard model with open boundary conditions. The local entanglement between the middle two sites and the rest of the system, and the block entanglement between the left and right portions of the system, are calculated using the density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method. We find that the entanglement shows interesting scaling and singular behavior around the phase transition line.
The density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) has been extended to study quantum phase transitions on random graphs of fixed connectivity. As a relevant example, we have analysed the random Ising model in a transverse field. If the couplings are random, the number of retained states remains reasonably low even for large sizes. The resulting quantum spin-glass transition has been traced down for a few disorder realizations, through the careful measurement of the entanglement entropy and some selected observables: spatial correlations, energy gap and spin-glass susceptibility, among others.
We studied the entangled state for a one-dimensional
S=1/2 antiferromagnetic quantum spin chain in a transverse field. We calculate the ground state using the density matrix renormalization group and discuss how the entangled state changes around a quantum phase transition (QPT) point. By analyzing concurrence
C(ρ) for two-qubit density matrix
ρ after the Lewenstein-Sanpera decomposition, $ρ=Λρ_s + (1-Λ) ρ_e $, where
ρs is a separable density matrix and
ρe is a pure entangled state obtained by a linear combination of Bell states, we find singular behaviors both in
C(ρe) and
1−Λ at the QPT point.
C(ρe) includes the effects of quantum fluctuations, which manifest the competition between the antiferromagnetic spin fluctuation and the effect of transverse field in the transverse Ising model. The quantum fluctuation shows the singular maximum at the QPT point as expected from the general picture of phase transition. In contrast,
1−Λ reveals the singular minimum at QPT point.