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Phase transitions are fundamental in nature. A small parameter change near a critical point leads to a qualitative change in system properties. Across a regular phase transition, the system remains in thermal equilibrium and, therefore,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-24 Jingwen Li , Michael Turaev , Masakazu Matsubara , Kristin Kliemt , Cornelius Krellner , Shovon Pal , Manfred Fiebig , Johann Kroha

The scaling law of entanglement entropy could undergo qualitative changes during the nonunitary evolution of a quantum many-body system. In this work, we uncover such entanglement phase transitions in one-dimensional non-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 Longwen Zhou

We consider the ferromagnetic Ising model on a highly inhomogeneous network created by a growth process. We find that the phase transition in this system is characterised by the Berezinskii--Kosterlitz--Thouless singularity, although…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Bauer , S. Coulomb , S. N. Dorogovtsev

The incipient quantum phase transitions of relevance to nonzero fluctuations and entanglement in Heisenberg clusters are studied in this paper by exploiting negativity as a measure in bipartite and frustrated spin-1 anisotropic Heisenberg…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-06-28 V S Abgaryan , N S Ananikian , L N Ananikyan , A N Kocharian

A conventional quantum phase transition (QPT) can be accessed by varying a real parameter at absolute zero temperature. Motivated by the discovery of the pseudo-Hermiticity of non-Hermitian systems, we explore the QPT in non-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-16 C. Li , G. Zhang , X. Z. Zhang , Z. Song

Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition, the topological phase transition to a quasi-long range order in a two-dimensional (2D) system, is a hallmark of low-dimensional topological physics. The recent emergence of non-Hermitian…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-07-23 Yun-Mei Li , Xi-Wang Luo , Chuanwei Zhang

We study the two-dimensional $q$-state clock model in the presence of an additional $p$-fold symmetry-breaking crystalline field using Monte Carlo simulations. While the pure clock model exhibits Berezinskii--Kosterlitz--Thouless (BKT)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-21 Milan Žukovič

We study dynamical phase transitions occurring in the stationary state of the dynamics of integrable many-body non-hermitian Hamiltonians, which can be either realized as a no-click limit of a stochastic Schr\"{o}dinger equation or using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-24 Caterina Zerba , Alessandro Silva

The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) mechanism, building upon proliferation of topological defects in 2D systems, is the first example of phase transition beyond the Landau-Ginzburg paradigm of symmetry breaking. Such a topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-09 Ze Hu , Zhen Ma , Yuan-Da Liao , Han Li , Chunsheng Ma , Yi Cui , Yanyan Shangguan , Zhentao Huang , Yang Qi , Wei Li , Zi Yang Meng , Jinsheng Wen , Weiqiang Yu

In this paper, combined with infinite time-evolving block decimation (iTEBD) algorithm and Bell-type inequalities, we investigate multi-partite quantum nonlocality in an infinite one-dimensional quantum spin-1/2 XXZ system. High hierarchy…

Non-Hermitian quantum system recently have attracted a lots of attentions theoretically and experimentally. However, the results based on the single-particle picture may not apply to understand the property of non-Hermitian many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-23 Wen-Bin He , Jiasen Jin , Fernando Iemini , Hai-Qing Lin

The anisotropic quantum spin-1/2 XY model on a linear chain was solved by Lieb, Schultz, and Mattis in 1961 and shown to display a continuous quantum phase transition at the O(2) symmetric point separating two gapped phases with competing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-05 Christopher Mudry , Ömer M. Aksoy , Claudio Chamon , Akira Furusaki

We present an example where Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking may effect not only the behavior of the entanglement at Quantum Phase Transitions, but also the origin of the non-analyticity. In particular, in the XXZ model, we study the non…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-26 L. Justino , Thiago R. de Oliveira

We investigate the quantum phase transitions for the $XXZ$ spin-1/2 chains via the quantum correlations between the nearest and next to nearest neighbor spins characterized by negativity, information deficit, trace distance discord and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-08 Biao-Liang Ye , Bo Li , Xianqing Li-Jost , Shao-Ming Fei

The one-dimensional extended isotropic XY model (s=1/2) in a transverse field with uniform long-range interactions among the \textit{z} components of the spin is considered. The model is exactly solved by introducing the gaussian and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-12-11 F. G. Ribeiro , J. P. de Lima , L. L. Goncalves

Quantum entanglement can be an effective diagnostic tool for probing topological phases protected by global symmetries. Recently, the notion of nontrivial topology in critical systems has been proposed and is attracting growing attention.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-19 Wen-Hao Zhong , Hai-Qing Lin , Xue-Jia Yu

The Berezinsky-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) type phase transitions in two-dimensional systems with internal abelian continuous symmetries are investigated. The necessary conditions for they can take place are: 1) conformal invariance of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 S. A. Bulgadaev

The breakdown of Lieb-Robinson bounds in local, non-Hermitian quantum systems opens up the possibility for a rich landscape of quantum many-body phenomenology. We elucidate this by studying information scrambling and quantum chaos in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 Brian Barch , Namit Anand , Jeffrey Marshall , Eleanor Rieffel , Paolo Zanardi

We consider a set of fully connected spins models that display first- or second-order transitions and for which we compute the ground-state entanglement in the thermodynamical limit. We analyze several entanglement measures (concurrence,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-03-01 M. Filippone , S. Dusuel , J. Vidal

We present a numerical study of the two-dimensional quantum percolation model, revealing that a critical region with multifractal eigenstates mediates the transition from localized to delocalized states. By analyzing the mean level ratio…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-10-28 W. S. Oliveira , J. Pimentel de Lima , F. A. Pinheiro , R. R. dos Santos