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Departamento de Matemática Técnico Técnico

Seminário de Computação e Informação Quântica  RSS

18/09/2014, 11:30 — 12:30 — Sala P9, Pavilhão de Matemática
, University College London

An order parameter for impurity systems at quantum criticality

A quantum phase transition may occur in the ground state of a system at zero temperature when a controlling field or interaction is varied. The resulting quantum fluctuations which trigger the transition produce scaling behavior of various observables, governed by universal critical exponents. A particularly interesting class of such transitions appear in systems with quantum impurities where a non-extensive term in the free energy becomes singular at the critical point. Curiously, the notion of a conventional order parameter which exhibits scaling at the critical point is generically missing in these systems. We here explore the possibility to use the Schmidt gap, which is an observable obtained from the entanglement spectrum, as an order parameter. A case study of the two-impurity Kondo model confirms that the Schmidt gap faithfully captures the scaling behavior by correctly predicting the critical exponent of the dynamically generated length scale at the critical point.

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Apoiado por: Phys-Info (IT), SQIG (IT), CeFEMA e CAMGSD, com financiamento de FCT, FEDER and EU FP7, especificamente via o Doctoral Programme in the Physics and Mathematics of Information (DP-PMI), os projectos estratégicos FCT PEst-OE/EEI/LA0008/2013 e UID/EEA/50008/2013, o projecto IT QuSim, o projecto CRUP-CPU CQVibes, a Acção de Coordenação FP7 QUTE-EUROPE (600788) e os projectos FP7 Landauer (GA 318287) e PAPETS (323901).

 

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