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Ground state overlap and quantum phase transitions

Paolo Zanardi, Nikola Paunković

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.

oai_identifier:
oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0512249
categories:
quant-ph
comments:
5 pages. Version to be published, title changed
doi:
10.1103/PhysRevE.74.031123
arxiv_id:
quant-ph/0512249
journal_ref:
Phys. Rev. E 74, 031123 (2006)
created:
2005-12-29
updated:
2006-07-17

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