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Quantum phase transitions and localization in semigroup Fredkin spin chain

  • Institute for Basic Science

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Abstract

We construct an extended quantum spin chain model by introducing new degrees of freedom to the Fredkin spin chain. The new degrees of freedom called arrow indices are partly associated with the symmetric inverse semigroup S13. Ground states of the model fall into three different phases, and quantum phase transition takes place at each phase boundary. One of the phases exhibits logarithmic violation of the area law of entanglement entropy and quantum criticality, whereas the other two obey the area law. As an interesting feature arising by the extension, there are excited states due to disconnections with respect to the arrow indices. We show that these states are localized without disorder.

Original languageEnglish
Article number69
JournalQuantum Information Processing
Volume18
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1 2019

Keywords

  • Entanglement entropy
  • Localization
  • Quantum statistical physics

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