Singularities in ground state fidelity and quantum phase transitions for the Kitaev model

Details Singularities in ground state fidelity and quantum phase transitions for the Kitaev model Singularities in ground state fidelity and quantum phase transitions for the Kitaev model

2008-03-06

arxiv.org/abs/0803.0814v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

4+ pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

The ground state fidelity per lattice site is shown to be able to detect quantum phase transitions for the Kitaev model on the honeycomb lattice, a prototypical example of quantum lattice systems with topological order. It is found that, in the thermodynamic limit, the ground state fidelity per lattice site is non-analytic at the phase boundaries: the second-order derivative of its logarithmic function with respect to a control parameter describing the interaction between neighboring spins is logarithmically divergent. A finite size scaling analysis is performed, which allows us to extract the correlation length critical exponent from the scaling behaviors of the ground state fidelity per lattice site.

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