Bose-Einstein condensation and entanglement in magnetic systems
Abstract
We present a study of magnetic field induced quantum phase transitions in insulating systems. A generalized scaling theory is used to obtain the temperature dependence of several physical quantities along the quantum critical trajectory (, ) where is a longitudinal external magnetic field and the critical value at which the transition occurs. We consider transitions from a spin liquid at a critical field and from a fully polarized paramagnet, at , into phases with long range order in the transverse components. The transitions at and can be viewed as Bose-Einstein condensations of magnons which however belong to different universality classes since they have different values of the dynamic critical exponent . Finally, we use that the magnetic susceptibility is an entanglement witness to discuss how this type of correlation sets in as the system approaches the quantum critical point along the critical trajectory, , .
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0605148,
title = {Bose-Einstein condensation and entanglement in magnetic systems},
author = {Mucio A. Continentino},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0605148},
year = {2009}
}
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7 pages, 1 Table; accepted version; changes in text and new references