Quantum criticality under decoherence or weak measurement

JY Lee, CM Jian, C Xu - PRX quantum, 2023 - APS
Decoherence inevitably happens when a quantum state is exposed to its environment,
which can affect quantum critical points (QCPs) in a nontrivial way. As was pointed out in the …

Disorder operator and Rényi entanglement entropy of symmetric mass generation

ZH Liu, Y Da Liao, G Pan, M Song, J Zhao, W Jiang… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The “symmetric mass generation”(SMG) quantum phase transition discovered in recent
years has attracted great interest from both condensed matter and high energy theory …

Deconfined quantum criticality lost

M Song, J Zhao, M Cheng, C Xu, MM Scherer… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Over the past two decades, the enigma of the deconfined quantum critical point (DQCP) has
attracted broad attention across the condensed matter, quantum field theory, and high …

Extracting subleading corrections in entanglement entropy at quantum phase transitions

M Song, J Zhao, ZY Meng, C Xu, M Cheng - SciPost Physics, 2024 - scipost.org
We systematically investigate the finite size scaling behavior of the Rényi entanglement
entropy (EE) of several representative 2d quantum many-body systems between a …

Stable computation of entanglement entropy for two-dimensional interacting fermion systems

G Pan, Y Da Liao, W Jiang, J D'Emidio, Y Qi, ZY Meng - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
There is no doubt that the information hidden in entanglement entropy (EE), for example, the
n th order Rényi EE, ie, S n A= 1 1− n ln Tr (ρ A n), where ρ A= Tr A¯ ρ is the reduced density …

Phases of SO(5) Nonlinear Sigma Model with a Topological Term on a Sphere: Multicritical Point and Disorder Phase

BB Chen, X Zhang, Y Wang, K Sun, ZY Meng - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Novel critical phenomena beyond the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson paradigm have been long
sought after. Among many candidate scenarios, the deconfined quantum critical point …

Dynamical properties of quantum many-body systems with long-range interactions

M Song, J Zhao, C Zhou, ZY Meng - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
Employing large-scale quantum Monte Carlo simulations, we systematically compute the
energy spectra of the two-dimensional (2D) spin-1/2 Heisenberg model with long-range …

Universal features of entanglement entropy in the honeycomb Hubbard model

J D'Emidio, R Orús, N Laflorencie, F De Juan - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The entanglement entropy is a unique probe to reveal universal features of strongly
interacting many-body systems. In two or more dimensions these features are subtle, and …

Many versus one: The disorder operator and entanglement entropy in fermionic quantum matter

W Jiang, BB Chen, ZH Liu, J Rong, FF Assaad… - SciPost Physics, 2023 - scipost.org
Motivated by recent development of the concept of the disorder operator and its relation with
entanglement entropy in bosonic systems, here we show the disorder operator successfully …

Emergent self-duality in a long-range critical spin chain: From deconfined criticality to first-order transition

S Yang, Z Pan, DC Lu, XJ Yu - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Over the past few decades, tremendous efforts have been devoted to understanding self-
duality at the quantum critical point, which enlarges the global symmetry and constrains the …