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Finite-temperature critical behavior of long-range quantum Ising models
by E. Gonzalez-Lazo, M. Heyl, M. Dalmonte, A. Angelone
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| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Marcello Dalmonte · Eduardo Gonzalez Lazo |
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| Preprint Link: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.15070v2 (pdf) |
| Date accepted: | 2021-09-29 |
| Date submitted: | 2021-08-11 14:22 |
| Submitted by: | Gonzalez Lazo, Eduardo |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approach: | Computational |
Abstract
We study the phase diagram and critical properties of quantum Ising chains with long-range ferromagnetic interactions decaying in a power-law fashion with exponent $\alpha$, in regimes of direct interest for current trapped ion experiments. Using large-scale path integral Monte Carlo simulations, we investigate both the ground-state and the nonzero-temperature regimes. We identify the phase boundary of the ferromagnetic phase and obtain accurate estimates for the ferromagnetic-paramagnetic transition temperatures. We further determine the critical exponents of the respective transitions. Our results are in agreement with existing predictions for interaction exponents $\alpha > 1$ up to small deviations in some critical exponents. We also address the elusive regime $\alpha < 1$, where we find that the universality class of both the ground-state and nonzero-temperature transition is consistent with the mean-field limit at $\alpha = 0$. Our work not only contributes to the understanding of the equilibrium properties of long-range interacting quantum Ising models, but can also be important for addressing fundamental dynamical aspects, such as issues concerning the open question of thermalization in such models.
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1. Acronyms for paramagnetic (PM) and ferromagnetic (FM) were introduced.
2. A citation to [J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 53 013001](https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/ab5634) have been added at line 55.
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>"Similarly, $p$-wave superconductors with long-range pairing[] have been shown to display exotic critical behavior, even if, due to the presence of Jordan-Wigner strings, those models do in general differ from Ising chains with similarly decaying interactions"
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>"For future works, it would be interesting to verify if some of these findings also apply to long-range $p$-wave superconductors
[], that, while described by free theories, could still display some of the phenomenology we discuss."
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11. A citation to [Phys. Rev. B 96, 104436](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.104436) have been added at line 379.
12. A citation to [Phys. Rev. B 95, 024302](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.95.024302) have been added at line 381.
Published as SciPost Phys. 11, 076 (2021)
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