Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2009-02-10
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
4+pages, 3 figures
Scientific paper
Spontaneous symmetry breaking occurs in a system when its Hamiltonian possesses a certain symmetry, whereas the ground state wave functions do not preserve it. This provides such a scenario that a bifurcation, which breaks the symmetry, occurs when some control parameter crosses its critical value. It is unveiled that the ground state fidelity per lattice site exhibits such a bifurcation for quantum lattice systems undergoing quantum phase transitions. The significance of this result lies in the fact that the ground state fidelity per lattice site is \textit{universal}, in the sense that it is model-independent, in contrast to (model-dependent) order parameters. This fundamental quantity may be computed by exploiting the newly-developed tensor network algorithms on infinite-size lattices. We illustrate the scheme in terms of the quantum Ising model in a transverse magnetic field and the spin 1/2 XYX model in an external magnetic field on an infinite-size lattice in one spatial dimension.
Li Bo
Wang Hong-Lei
Zhao Jian-Hui
Zhou Huan-Qiang
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