An order parameter for impurity systems at quantum criticality

Abolfazl Bayat (), Henrik Johannesson, Sougato Bose and Pasquale Sodano
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Abolfazl Bayat: University College London
Henrik Johannesson: University of Gothenburg
Sougato Bose: University College London
Pasquale Sodano: International Institute of Physics, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Nature Communications, 2014, vol. 5, issue 1, 1-6

Abstract: Abstract A quantum phase transition may occur in the ground state of a system at zero temperature when a controlling field or interaction is varied. The resulting quantum fluctuations which trigger the transition produce scaling behaviour of various observables, governed by universal critical exponents. A particularly interesting class of such transitions appear in systems with quantum impurities where a non-extensive term in the free energy becomes singular at the critical point. Curiously, the notion of a conventional order parameter that exhibits scaling at the critical point is generically missing in these systems. Here we explore the possibility to use the Schmidt gap, which is an observable obtained from the entanglement spectrum, as an order parameter. A case study of the two-impurity Kondo model confirms that the Schmidt gap faithfully captures the scaling behaviour by correctly predicting the critical exponent of the dynamically generated length scale at the critical point.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4784

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