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Quantum phase transitions are a ubiquitous many-body phenomenon that occurs in a wide range of physical systems, including superconductors, quantum spin liquids, and topological materials. However, investigations of quantum critical systems…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-06 Timo Kist , Jose L. Lado , Christian Flindt

The Lee-Yang theorem for the zeroes of the partition function is not strictly applicable to quantum systems because the zeroes are defined in units of the fugacity $e^{h\Delta\tau}$, and the Euclidean-time lattice spacing $\Delta\tau$ can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. R. Crompton

The study of zeros of partition functions, initiated by Yang and Lee, provides an important qualitative and quantitative tool in the study of critical phenomena. This has frequently been used for periodic as well as hierarchical lattices.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 M. Baake , U. Grimm , C. Pisani

Showing that the location of the zeros of the partition function can be used to study phase transitions, Yang and Lee initiated an ambitious and very fruitful approach. We give an overview of the results obtained using this approach. After…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ioana Bena , Michel Droz , Adam Lipowski

Without invoking any cumulant determination at the input level, we present here the first calculations of direct estimates of the Lee-Yang zeros of QCD partition function in (2+1)-flavor QCD. These zeros are obtained in complex isospin…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-07-21 Sabarnya Mitra

Equilibrium systems which exhibit a phase transition can be studied by investigating the complex zeros of the partition function. This method, pioneered by Yang and Lee, has been widely used in equilibrium statistical physics. We show that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Stephan M Dammer , Silvio R Dahmen , Haye Hinrichsen

We present a numerical calculation of the Lee-Yang and Fisher zeros of the 2D Ising model using multi-point Pad\'{e} approximants. We perform simulations for the 2D Ising model with ferromagnetic couplings both in the absence and in the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-04-16 Simran Singh , Massimo Cipressi , Francesco Di Renzo

We investigate the Ising model in one, two, and three dimensions using a cumulant method that allows us to determine the Lee-Yang zeros from the magnetization fluctuations in small lattices. By doing so with increasing system size, we are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-13 Aydin Deger , Fredrik Brange , Christian Flindt

The hot nucleus $^{162}\mathrm{Dy}$ is investigated using covariant density functional theory, where the shell-model-like approach treats the pairing correlation. Lee-Yang's theorem is applied to classify the pairing phase transition by…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-17 Yuhang Gao , Yanlong Lin , Lang Liu

We present a general, rigorous theory of Lee-Yang zeros for models with first-order phase transitions that admit convergent contour expansions. We derive formulas for the positions and the density of the zeros. In particular, we show that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Marek Biskup , Christian Borgs , Jennifer T. Chayes , Logan J. Kleinwaks , Roman Kotecky

Near the second order phase transition point, QCD with two flavours of massless quarks can be approximated by an O($4$) model, where a symmetry breaking external field $H$ can be added to play the role of quark mass. The Lee-Yang theorem…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-12-01 Felipe Attanasio , Marc Bauer , Lukas Kades , Jan M. Pawlowski

We analyze the partition function of the Ising model on graphs of two different types: complete graphs, wherein all nodes are mutually linked and annealed scale-free networks for which the degree distribution decays as $P(k)\sim…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-03-23 M. Krasnytska , B. Berche , Yu. Holovatch , R. Kenna

To simulate indistinguishable particles, recent studies of path-integral molecular dynamics formulated their partition function $Z$ as a recurrence relation involving a variable $\xi$, with $\xi=1$(-1) for bosons (fermions). Inspired by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-27 Ran-Chen He , Jia-Xi Zeng , Shu Yang , Cong Wang , Qi-Jun Ye , Xin-Zheng Li

Lee-Yang (LY) zeros, points on the complex plane of physical parameters where the partition function goes to zero, have found diverse applications across multiple disciplines like statistical physics, protein folding, percolation, complex…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-06 Arijit Chatterjee , T S Mahesh , Mounir Nisse , Yen-Kheng Lim

Canonical partition functions and Lee-Yang zeros of QCD at finite density and high temperature are studied. Recent lattice simulations have confirmed that the free energy of QCD is a quartic function of quark chemical potential at…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-05-27 Keitaro Nagata , Kouji Kashiwa , Atsushi Nakamura , Shinsuke M. Nishigaki

The Lee-Yang property of a given spin model means that its partition function has purely imaginary zeros as a function of an external magnetic field. A similar property is also used in the theory of quantum anharmonic crystals and quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Yuri Kozitsky

The seminal Lee-Yang theorem states that for any graph the zeros of the partition function of the ferromagnetic Ising model lie on the unit circle in $\mathbb C$. In fact the union of the zeros of all graphs is dense on the unit circle. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Han Peters , Guus Regts

Using the electrostatic analogy, we derive an exact formula for the limiting Yang-Lee zero distribution in the random allocation model of general weights. This exhibits a real-space condensation phase transition, which is induced by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-28 Zdzislaw Burda , Desmond A. Johnston , Mario Kieburg

Lee-Yang phase transition theory is a milestone in statistical physics. Its applications in realistic systems, however, had been substantially hindered by availability of practical schemes to calculate the Lee-Yang zeros. In this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-17 Ling Liu , Yihua Dong , Qijun Ye , Xin-Zheng Li

The canonical partition functions $Z_n$ and the number distributions $P_n$ which are obervable in experiments, are related by a single parameter, the fugacities $\xi=\exp(\mu/T)$. With the charge parity invariance, $Z_n$ and $\xi$ can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-16 Atsushi Nakamura , Keitaro Nagata