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The two-dimensional (2D) XY model plays a crucial role in statistical and condensed matter physics. With the introduction of long-range interactions, the system exhibits a richer set of physical phenomena and a crossover between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-14 Dingyun Yao , Tianning Xiao , Chao Zhang , Youjin Deng , Zhijie Fan

We analyze the bipartite and multipartite entanglement for the ground state of the one-dimensional XY model in a transverse magnetic field in the thermodynamical limit. We explicitly take into account the spontaneous symmetry breaking in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-20 Thiago R. de Oliveira , Gustavo Rigolin , Marcos C. de Oliveira , E. Miranda

We study a spin 1/2 Heisenberg zigzag spin chain model near decoupled two chains. Taking into account a symmetry breaking perturbation, we discuss the existence of an energy gap in the ferromagnetic interchain coupling as well as the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Chigak Itoi , Shaojin Qin

Topological phase space disconnection has been recently found to be a general phenomenon in isolated anisotropic spin systems. It sets a general framework to understand the emergence of ferromagnetism in finite magnetic systems starting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-29 F. Borgonovi , G. L. Celardo , B. Goncalves , L. Spadafora

A single spin flip stochastic energy conserving dynamics for the XY model is considered. We study the ergodicity properties of the dynamics. It is shown that phase space trajectories densely fill the geometrically connected parts of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Abhishek Dhar

From a dynamical viewpoint, basic phase transitions of statistical mechanics can be regarded as a breaking of ergodicity. While many random models exhibiting such transitions at the thermodynamics limit exist, finite-dimensional examples…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Bastien Fernandez

Hysteresis and metastable states are typical features associated with ergodicity breaking in the first-order phase transition. We explore the scaling relations of nonequilibrium thermodynamics in finite-time first-order phase transitions.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-20 Yu-Xin Wu , Jin-Fu Chen , H. T. Quan

Characterizing states of matter through the lens of their ergodic properties is a fascinating new direction of research. In the quantum realm, the many-body localization (MBL) was proposed to be the paradigmatic ergodicity breaking…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-01 J. Šuntajs , J. Bonča , T. Prosen , L. Vidmar

In the corner-sharing lattice, magnetic frustration causes macroscopic degeneracy in the ground state, which prevents systems from ordering. However, if the ensemble of the degenerate configuration has some global structure, the system can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-09-25 Shu Tanaka , Seiji Miyashita

We study the problem of ensemble equivalence in spin systems with short-range interactions under the existence of a first-order phase transition. The spherical model with nonlinear nearest-neighbour interactions is solved exactly both for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-08-31 Kazutaka Takahashi , Hidetoshi Nishimori , Victor Martin-Mayor

We investigate the p-spin model with Gaussian-distributed random interactions in the microcanonical ensemble using the replica theory. For p=2, there are only second-order phase transitions and we recover the results of Sherrington and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-08 Zsolt Bertalan , Hidethoshi Nishimori

Critical behavior of the two-dimensional generalized $XY$ model involving solely nematic-like terms of the second, third and fourth orders is studied by Monte Carlo method. We find that such a system can undergo three successive phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-24 Milan Žukovič

We study the quantum critical behavior of networks consisting of Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick models with an anisotropic ferromagnetic coupling. We focus on the low-energy properties of the system within a mean-field approach and the quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-11-05 A. V. Sorokin , V. M. Bastidas , T. Brandes

It is challenging to probe ergodicity breaking trends of a quantum many-body system when dissipation inevitably damages quantum coherence originated from coherent coupling and dispersive two-body interactions. Rydberg atoms provide a test…

We consider a model with competing double-exchange (ferromagnetic) and super-exchange (anti-ferromagnetic) interactions in the regime where phase separation takes place. The presence of a long range Coulomb interaction frustrates a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-01-05 Gideon Wachtel , Dror Orgad , D. I. Golosov

In classical systems, chaos is clearly defined via the behavior of trajectories. In quantum systems with a classical analogue one finds that the transition from regular to chaotic dynamics is signified by a change in the spectral…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-24 Fotis I. Giasemis

Here we present a new perspective to the breakdown of ferromagnetic order in two-dimensional spin-lattice models employing the rotation of the underlying lattice. Using an Ising spin system on a square lattice as a prototype, we demonstrate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-17 Claudio J DaSilva , L. S. Ferreira , A. A. Caparica

Continuous symmetry breaking (CSB) in low-dimensional systems, forbidden by the Mermin-Wagner theorem for short-range interactions, may take place in the presence of slowly decaying long-range interactions. Nevertheless, there is no…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-07-19 Mohammad F. Maghrebi , Zhe-Xuan Gong , Alexey V. Gorshkov

We introduce a generalized Hamiltonian Mean Field Model (gHMF)-XY model with both linear and quadratic coupling between spins and explicit Hamiltonian dynamics. In addition to the usual paramagnetic and ferromagnetic phases, this model also…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-14 Tarcísio N. Teles , Fernanda Benetti , Renato Pakter , Yan Levin

The correlations, entanglement entropy, and fidelity susceptibility are calculated for a one-dimensional spin-1/2 XXZ chain with anisotropic power-law long range interactions by employing the density matrix renormalization group method. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-11 Jie Ren , Wen-Long You , Xiaoqun Wang