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Quantum fidelity in the thermodynamic limit

Quantum Physics 2015-05-20 v2 Statistical Mechanics Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We study quantum fidelity, the overlap between two ground states of a many-body system, focusing on the thermodynamic regime. We show how drop of fidelity near a critical point encodes universal information about a quantum phase transition. Our general scaling results are illustrated in the quantum Ising chain for which a remarkably simple expression for fidelity is found.

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@article{arxiv.1010.1048,
  title  = {Quantum fidelity in the thermodynamic limit},
  author = {Marek M. Rams and Bogdan Damski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.1048},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

4 pages, 4 figures, rearranged a bit to improve presentation

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