Entropic analysis of quantum phase transitions from uniform to spatially inhomogeneous phases

Legeza, Örs and Sólyom, Jenő and Tincani, L and Noack, RM (2007) Entropic analysis of quantum phase transitions from uniform to spatially inhomogeneous phases. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 99 (8). ISSN 0031-9007

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Abstract

We propose a new approach to study quantum phase transitions in low-dimensional fermionic or spin models that go from uniform to spatially inhomogeneous phases such as dimerized, trimerized, or incommensurate phases. It is based on studying the length dependence of the von Neumann entropy and its corresponding Fourier spectrum for finite segments in the ground state of finite chains. Peaks at a nonzero wave vector are indicators of oscillatory behavior in decaying correlation functions and also provide significant information about certain relevant features of the excitation spectrum; in particular, they can identify the wave vector of soft modes in critical models.

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