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Spontaneous symmetry breaking with type-B Goldstone modes is investigated in the SO($2s+1$) ferromagnetic model. A set of orthonormal basis states in the ground state subspace are constructed, which admit an exact Schmidt decomposition,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-31 Qian-Qian Shi , Huan-Qiang Zhou , Murray T. Batchelor , Ian P. McCulloch

It is argued that there are a set of orthonormal basis states, which appear as highly degenerate ground states arising from spontaneous symmetry breaking with a type-B Goldstone mode, and they are scale-invariant, with a salient feature…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-26 Qian-Qian Shi , Yan-Wei Dai , Huan-Qiang Zhou , Ian P. McCulloch

A generic scheme is proposed to investigate the entanglement entropy for a type of scale-invariant states, valid for orthonormal basis states in the ground state subspace of quantum many-body systems undergoing spontaneous symmetry breaking…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-10 Huan-Qiang Zhou , Qian-Qian Shi , Ian P. McCulloch , Murray T. Batchelor

It is found that the staggered $\rm SU(4)$ ferromagnetic spin-orbital model accommodates highly degenerate ground states arising from spontaneous symmetry breaking with type-B Goldstone modes. The spontaneous symmetry breaking pattern is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-12 Qian-Qian Shi , Huan-Qiang Zhou , Ian P. McCulloch , Murray T. Batchelor

A generic scheme is proposed to perform a finite-entanglement scaling analysis for scale-invariant states, which appear to be highly degenerate ground states arising from spontaneous symmetry breaking with type-B Goldstone modes. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-01 Huan-Qiang Zhou , Yan-Wei Dai , Qian-Qian Shi , Ian P. McCulloch , Murray T. Batchelor

Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) with type-B Goldstone modes is investigated in the macroscopically degenerate phase for a quantum spin-1 many-body system with competing dimer and trimer interactions. The SSB involves three distinct…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-12 Huan-Qiang Zhou , Qian-Qian Shi , Ian P. McCulloch , Murray T. Batchelor

The one-dimensional flat-band ferromagnetic Tasaki model exhibits spontaneous symmetry breaking from ${\rm SU}(2)$ to ${\rm U}(1)$ with one type-B Goldstone mode, featuring that the highest weight state is entangled at quarter filling, but…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-23 Huan-Qiang Zhou , Qian-Qian Shi , Ian P. McCulloch , J. O. Fjærestad

A universal finite system-size scaling analysis of the entanglement entropy is presented for highly degenerate ground states arising from spontaneous symmetry breaking with type-B Goldstone modes in exactly solvable one-dimensional quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-25 Huan-Qiang Zhou , Qian-Qian Shi , Ian P. McCulloch , Murray T. Batchelor

We report results of the analysis of the spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) in the basic (actually, simplest) model which is capable to produce the SSB phenomenology in the one-dimensional setting. It is based on the Gross-Pitaevskii -…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-24 Elad Shamriz , Nir Dror , Boris A. Malomed

We construct a purely fermionic system with spontaneously broken supersymmetry that shares the common feature with a fracton phase of matter. Our model is gapless due to the Nambu-Goldstone mechanism. It shows a ground-state degeneracy with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-24 Hosho Katsura , Yu Nakayama

We study entanglement properties of systems with spontaneously broken continuous symmetry. We find that in addition to the expected area law behavior, the entanglement entropy contains a subleading contribution which diverges…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-01-09 Max A. Metlitski , Tarun Grover

In this paper, we derive corrections to the subleading logarithmic term of the entanglement entropy in systems with spontaneous broken continuous symmetry. Using quantum Monte Carlo simulations, we show that the improved scaling formula…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-16 Zehui Deng , Lu Liu , Wenan Guo , H. Q. Lin

Ferromagnetic ground states have often been overlooked in comparison to seemingly more interesting antiferromagnetic ground states. However, both the physical and mathematical structure of ferromagnetic ground states are particularly rich.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-26 Huan-Qiang Zhou , Qian-Qian Shi , Ian P. McCulloch , Murray T. Batchelor

We numerically explore the interplay of fractal geometry and quantum entanglement by analyzing the von Neumann entropy (known as entanglement entropy) and the entanglement contour in the scaling limit. Adopting quadratic fermionic models on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 Yao Zhou , Peng Ye

For a quantum many-body spin system undergoing spontaneous symmetry breaking with type-B Goldstone modes, a high degree of degeneracy arises in the ground state manifold. Generically, if this degeneracy is polynomial in system size, then it…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-21 Huan-Qiang Zhou , Jesse J. Osborne , Qian-Qian Shi , Ian P. McCulloch

Entanglement asymmetry is a relative entropy that faithfully diagnoses symmetry breaking in quantum states, possibly within a spatial subregion. In this work, we extend such framework to higher-form symmetries and compute entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-26 Francesco Benini , Eduardo García-Valdecasas , Stathis Vitouladitis

Exact matrix product state representations for a type of scale-invariant states are presented, which describe highly degenerate ground states arising from spontaneous symmetry breaking with type-B Goldstone modes in one-dimensional quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-15 Huan-Qiang Zhou , Qian-Qian Shi , Ian P. McCulloch

We consider the bipartite entanglement entropy of ground states of extended quantum systems with a large degeneracy. Often, as when there is a spontaneously broken global Lie group symmetry, basis elements of the lowest-energy space form a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-30 Olalla A. Castro-Alvaredo , Benjamin Doyon

Quantum systems with short range interactions are known to respect an area law for the entanglement entropy: the von Neumann entropy $S$ associated to a bipartition scales with the boundary $p$ between the two parts. Here we study the case…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-03 Alioscia Hamma , Daniel A. Lidar , Simone Severini

We discuss spontaneous symmetry breakdown (SSB) of both global and local scale symmetries in scalar-tensor gravity with two scalar fields, one of which couples nonminimally to scalar curvature while the other is a normal scalar field. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-19 Ichiro Oda
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