Tian Guang-Shan

Pairwise Entanglement and Quantum Phase Transitions in Spin Systems

We examine several well-known quantum spin models and categorize the behaviour of pairwise entanglement at quantum phase transitions. A unified picture on the connection between the entanglement and quantum phase transition in spin systems is presented.We examine several well known quantum spin models and categorize behavior of pairwise entanglement at quantum phase transitions. A unified picture on the connection between the entanglement and quantum phase transition is given.

Matrix product state, quantum entanglement, and criticality in the one-dimensional dimerized antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model

The matrix product state (MPS) is utilized to investigate the ground state properties and quantum phase transitions (QPTs) of the dimerized antiferromagnetic Heisenberg (DAH) model. The ground state MPS wavefunctions determined by the infinite time-evolving block decimation (iTEBD) algorithm are shown to be very efficient descriptions of DAH model. In the thermodynamic limit, the quantum entanglement, the bond energy, and the nearest-neighbor correlations are calculated. It is revealed that the singular behavior of the bipartite entanglement can detect the QPTs directly. The critical point Jc2 = 1.0 is determined evidently, and the quantum phase transition is argued to belong to the second-order category. At the critical point, logarithmic divergent character of the block entanglement is observed, and the system can be described by a free bosonic field theory.

Specific Heat and Magnetic Susceptibility of Graphene: A Renormalization Group Study

In the present paper, we study effect of the long-range Coulomb interaction on the thermodynamic properties of graphene by renormalization group methods. Our calculations show that both the specific heat and the magnetic susceptibility of the material behave differently from the Landau Fermi liquid. More precisely, we find that these quantities are logarithmically suppressed with respect to its noninteracting counterpart when temperature is low.

Effects of Conduction Electron Band Structure on Transport of Quantum Dot Systems

We study the effects of the energy band structure of conduction-electron on the transport properties of an interacting quantum dot system. By applying the nonequilibrium Keldysh Green function technique, we show that the finite width of electron band in leads causes the negative differential conductance in some regions of the applied voltage. We also show that the van Hove singularities in the density of states of conduction-electron do not qualitatively change the differential conductance of the system, and hence can be safely ignored. Therefore, the wide band approximation used in the previous investigations is partially justified.

AC Conductance Through a Vibrating Molecular Dot in Kondo Regime

In the present paper, by applying the Lang–Firsov canonical transformation and the so-called non-crossing approximation technique, we investigate the joint effects of the electron-phonon interaction and an external alternating gate voltage on the transport of a quantum dot system in the Kondo regime. We find that, while the satellite Kondo resonant peaks appear in both the averaged local density of states and the differential conductance, the main Kondo peak at the Fermi energy is greatly suppressed. These results confirm the previous ones derived by other methods, such as the equation of motion solution. Furthermore, based on the picture of virtual transition between quasi-eigenstates in the system, we also give a slightly different explanation on these phenomena.

Effects of van Hove Singularities on Transport of Quantum Dot Systems in Kondo Regime

In the present paper, we study the effect of van Hove singularities of conduction electron on the transport of a single quantum dot system in the Kondo regime. By using both the equation-of-motion and the noncrossing approximation techniques, we show that the corrections caused by these singularities are actually minor. It can be explained by observing that the singularities in the equations, which determine the electronic DOS on the dot, are integrable. Furthermore, we find that, although each line width function is divergent at van Hove singular points, the total divergence is canceled out in the final formula to calculate the current through the system. Therefore, as far as the qualitative properties of the system is concerned, these singularities can be ignored and the wide-band approximation can be safely used in calculation.

Quantum Phase Transitions, Entanglement Spectrum, and Schmidt Gap in Bond-Alternative S = 1 Antiferromagnetic Chain

Bipartite entanglement, entanglement spectrum, and Schmidt gap in S=1 bond-alternative antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chain are investigated by the infinite time-evolving block decimation (iTEBD) method. The quantum phase transition (QPT) from the singlet-dimer phase to the Haldane phase can be detected by the singular behavior of bipartite entanglement, the sudden change of the entanglement spectrum, and the completely vanishing of the Schmidt gap. The critical point is determined to be around rc 0.587, and the second-order character of the QPT is verified. Doubly degenerate entanglement spectra of both even and odd bonds are observed in the Haldane phase, by which one can distinguish the Haldane phase from the singlet-dimer phase easily. Nearest-neighbor antiferromagnetic correlations and next-nearest-neighbor ferromagnetic correlations are found in the whole parameter region. At the critical massless point, although exponentially decaying antiferromagnetic correlation is observed, it approaches to a constant value finally. Therefore, long-range correlations exist and the correlation length becomes divergent at the critical point.

Effects of Bond Alternation on the Ground-State Phase Diagram of One-Dimensional XXZ Model

The ground-state properties and quantum phase transitions (QPTs) of the one-dimensional bond-alternative XXZ model are investigated by the infinite time-evolving block decimation (iTEBD) method. The bond-alternative effects on its ground-state phase diagram are discussed in detail. Once the bond alternation is taken into account, the antiferromagnetic phase (Δ > 1) will be destroyed at a given critical point and change into a disordered phase without nonlocal string order. The QPT is shown to be second-order, and the whole phase diagram is provided. For the ferromagnetic phase region (Δ < −1), the critical point rc always equals 1 (independent of Δ), and the QPT for this case is shown to be first-order. The dimerized Heisenberg model is also discussed, and two disordered phases can be distinguished by with or without nonlocal string orders. Both the bipartite entanglement and the fidelity per site, as two kinds of model-independent measures, are capable of describing all the QPTs in such a quantum model.

Quantum Phase Transitions and Dimerized Phases in Frustrated Spin Ladder

In this paper, we study the phase diagram of a frustrated spin ladder model by applying the bosonization technique and the density-matrix renormalization-group (DMRG) algorithm. Effect of the intra-chain next-nearestneighbor (NNN) super-exchange interaction is investigated in detail and the order parameters are calculated to detect the emergence of the dimerized phases. We find that the intra-chain NNN interaction plays a key role in inducing dimerized phases.

Quantum Phase Transition in Quasi-two-dimensional Heisenberg Antiferromagnet with Single-Ion Anisotropy

In the present paper, we investigate the quantum phase transition in a spatially anisotropic antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model of S = 1 with single-ion energy anisotropy. By using the Schwinger boson representation, we calculate the Gaussian correction to the critical value J⊥c caused by quantum spin fluctuations. We find that, for the positive single-ion energy, a nonzero value of J⊥c is always needed to stabilize the antiferromagnetic long-range order in this model. It resolves a difference among literature and shows clearly that the effect of quantum fluctuations may qualitatively change a result obtained by the mean-field theories on lower-dimensional systems.