Quantum Fidelity and Thermal Phase Transitions

Details Quantum Fidelity and Thermal Phase Transitions Quantum Fidelity and Thermal Phase Transitions

2008-06-27

arxiv.org/abs/0806.4633v1

Phys. Rev. E 79, 031101 (2009)

Physics

Quantum Physics

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.79.031101

We study the quantum fidelity approach to characterize thermal phase transitions. Specifically, we focus on the mixed-state fidelity induced by a perturbation in temperature. We consider the behavior of fidelity in two types of second-order thermal phase transitions (based on the type of non-analiticity of free energy), and we find that usual fidelity criteria for identifying critical points is more applicable to the case of $\lambda$ transitions (divergent second derivatives of free energy). Our study also reveals limitations of the fidelity approach: sensitivity to high temperature thermal fluctuations that wash out information about the transition, and inability of fidelity to distinguish between crossovers and proper phase transitions. In spite of these limitations, however, we find that fidelity remains a good pre-criterion for testing thermal phase transitions, which we use to analyze the non-zero temperature phase diagram of the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model.

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