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View SchemaGround state overlap and quantum phase transitions
| Authors | Paolo Zanardi, Nikola Paunković |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0512249 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0512249 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevE.74.031123 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. E 74, 031123 (2006) |
Abstract
We present a characterization of quantum phase transitions in terms of the the overlap function between two ground states obtained for two different values of external parameters. On the examples of the Dicke and XY models, we show that the regions of criticality of a system are marked by the extremal points of the overlap and functions closely related to it. Further, we discuss the connections between this approach and the Anderson orthogonality catastrophe as well as with the dynamical study of the Loschmidt echo for critical systems.
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