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Spin-orbital entanglement near quantum phase transitions

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2007-06-19 v1

Abstract

Spin-orbital entanglement in the ground state of a one-dimensional SU(2)\otimesSU(2) spin-orbital model is analyzed using exact diagonalization of finite chains. For S=1/2S=1/2 spins and T=1/2T=1/2 pseudospins one finds that the quantum entanglement is similar at the SU(4) symmetry point and in the spin-orbital valence bond state. We also show that quantum transitions in spin-orbital models turn out to be continuous under certain circumstances, in constrast to the discontinuous transitions in spin models with SU(2) symmetry.

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@article{arxiv.0706.2477,
  title  = {Spin-orbital entanglement near quantum phase transitions},
  author = {Andrzej M. Oles and Peter Horsch and Giniyat Khaliullin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.2477},
  year   = {2007}
}
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