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arXiv:quant-ph/0202162 · Physical Review A

Entanglement in a simple quantum phase transition

Tobias J. Osborne, Michael A. Nielsen

Published Sep 23, 2002• 1,472 citations

Abstract

What entanglement is present in naturally occurring physical systems at thermal equilibrium? Most such systems are intractable and it is desirable to study simple but realistic systems that can be solved. An example of such a system is the one-dimensional infinite-lattice anisotropic $\mathrm{XY}$ model. This model is exactly solvable using the Jordan-Wigner transform, and it is possible to calculate the two-site reduced density matrix for all pairs of sites. Using the two-site density matrix, the entanglement of formation between any two sites is calculated for all parameter values and temperatures. We also study the entanglement in the transverse Ising model, a special case of the $\mathrm{XY}$ model, which exhibits a quantum phase transition. It is found that the next-nearest-neighbor entanglement (though not the nearest-neighbor entanglement) is a maximum at the critical point. Furthermore, we show that the critical point in the transverse Ising model corresponds to a transition in the behavior of the entanglement between a single site and the remainder of the lattice.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.66.032110

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What entanglement is present in naturally occurring physical systems at thermal equilibrium? Most such systems are intractable and it is desirable to study simple but realistic systems that can be solved. An example of such a system is the one-dimensional infinite-lattice anisotropic

\mathrm{XY}

model. This model is exactly solvable using the Jordan-Wigner transform, and it is possible to calculate the two-site reduced density matrix for all pairs of sites. Using the two-site density matrix, the entanglement of formation between any two sites is calculated for all parameter values and temperatures. We also study the entanglement in the transverse Ising model, a special case of the

\mathrm{XY}

model, which exhibits a quantum phase transition. It is found that the next-nearest-neighbor entanglement (though not the nearest-neighbor entanglement) is a maximum at the critical point. Furthermore, we show that the critical point in the transverse Ising model corresponds to a transition in the behavior of the entanglement between a single site and the remainder of the lattice.

We investigate the dynamics of entanglement, quantum correlation and classical correlation for the one-dimensional XY model in a transverse magnetic field. With the initial state polarized along the z axis, we find that the first maximum of the classical correlation between the nearest neighbor sites peaks around the critical point for large anisotropy parameter. It may indicate the quantum phase transition. For all kinds of correlation, we find that their behaviors between the nearest neighbor sites are significantly different from those of the next-nearest neighbor sites.

We study the evolution of nearest-neighbor entanglement in the one-dimensional Ising model with an external transverse field. The system is initialized as the so-called thermal ground state of the pure Ising model. We analyze properties of the generation of entanglement for different regions of external transverse fields. We find that the derivative of the time at which the entanglement reaches its first maximum with respect to the reciprocal transverse field has a minimum at the critical point. This is an indicator of quantum phase transition.

In this paper the entanglement and quantum phase transition of the anisotropic spin-

\mathrm{XY}

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We investigate the effectiveness of the stabilizer Rényi entropy (SRE), a quantifier associated with non-stabilizer resources (quantum magic), as an indicator of quantum phase transitions. Specifically, we analyze the behavior of the purity-corrected SRE of reduced density matrices in the ground states of two one-dimensional spin models: the transverse axial next-nearest-neighbor Ising (TANNNI) model and the quantum compass model (QCM). The ground state of the TANNNI model is obtained using exact diagonalization techniques, while the QCM is analyzed using the Jordan--Wigner (JW) transformation followed by Bogoliubov diagonalization of the resulting quadratic fermionic Hamiltonian. For the TANNNI model, the purity-corrected SRE successfully detects the antiphase--floating phase transition in the high-frustration regime, while in the low-frustration regime the raw (purity-uncorrected) SRE reproduces the known ferromagnetic--paramagnetic phase boundaries more accurately. For the QCM, the purity-corrected SRE exhibits a clear signature near the isotropic point

J_x/J_z=1

, where the system undergoes a first-order quantum phase transition. Our results establish SRE of reduced states as a complementary probe of quantum criticality and provide further insight into the role of non-stabilizer resources in many-body quantum phase transitions.

We investigate entanglement and quantum phase transition in a two-dimensional Heisenberg anisotropic spin-

1/2\mathit{XY}

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