Single-ion anisotropy effects on the critical behaviors of quantum entanglement and correlation in the spin-1 Heisenberg chain.

Quantum entanglement and correlations in the spin-1 Heisenberg chain with single-ion anisotropy are investigated using the quantum renormalization group method. Negativity and quantum discord (QD) are calculated with various anisotropy parameters △ and single-ion anisotropy parametersD. We focus on the relations between two abovementioned physical quantities and on transitions between the Néel, Haldane, and large-Dphases. It is found that both negativity and QD exhibit step-like patterns in different phases as the size of the system increases. Interestingly, the single-ion anisotropy parameterD, which can be modulated using nuclear electric resonance (2020Nature579205), plays an important role in tuning the quantum phase transition (QPT) of the system. Both the first partial derivative of the negativity and QD with respect toDor △ exhibit nonanalytic behavior at the phase transition points, which corresponds directly to the divergence of the correlation length. The quantum correlation critical exponents derived from negativity and QD are equal, and are the reciprocal of the correlation length exponent at each critical point. This work extends the application of quantum entanglement and correlations as tools for depicting QPTs in spin-1 systems.

Exactly solvable antiferromagnetic Blume-Capel model on a sawtooth chain.

The geometrically frustrated spin-1 Blume-Capel model on an infinite sawtooth chain is exactly solved by the transfer matrix method. The magnetization, ground-state phase diagram, magnetocaloric properties, and specific heat of the system are investigated. The results indicate that: (i) Magnetization plateaus appear at zero temperature. Their number depends on the sign of the crystal field D. For D≥0 there are two magnetization plateaus; however, for D<0 five plateaus exist. At a finite temperature, thermal excitation will destroy these plateaus completely. (ii) Phase transition between any two long-range-ordered ground states, whose spin configurations are given in phase diagram, is the first-order one. The macroscopic degeneracy of the ground states described by the entropy only exists at phase coexistence points. (iii) As temperature approaches zero, magnetocaloric properties and entropy change sharply near phase coexistence points. (iv) The crossovers of the specific heat from a single-peak structure to double-peak ones can signal the phase coexistence points in ground-state phase diagram.

Critical dynamics of the kinetic Glauber-Ising model on hierarchical lattices.

The critical dynamics of the kinetic Glauber-Ising model is studied on a family of the diamond-type hierarchical lattices with various branches. By carrying out the time-dependent real-space renormalization-group transformation to the master equation of the systems considered, the dynamic exponent is calculated. We find that the dynamic exponent depends on fractal dimension d(f) or the branch number m in a generator, and that it increases with the increase of d(f) or m. We notice that for the case of m=1 (one-dimensional spin chain, d(f)=1) our result z=2 is the same as the exact result obtained by Glauber, and for the case of m=2 (the simplest one in the diamond-type hierarchical lattices, d(f)=2) the exponent z=2.626 is higher than those of the two-dimensional regular lattice and the triangular lattice.

Critical dynamics of the Gaussian model with multispin transitions.

In this paper, we present a multispin transition mechanism, which is an extension of the Glauber one, to investigate critical dynamics. By exactly solving the master equation, the influence of the multispin transition mechanism on the dynamic critical behavior is studied for the Gaussian model with nearest-neighbor interactions on d-dimensional lattices (d=1, 2, and 3). The time evolution of magnetization is exactly calculated, and the exact results of relaxation time and dynamic critical exponent are obtained. Our models are divided into two kinds: one is the spin-cluster transition and the other is the arbitrary multispin transition. It is found that there are different relaxation times, but the same dynamical critical exponent for different kinds of multispin transitions. The results show that the dynamical critical exponents are independent of spatial dimensions and configurations of transitional spins, and that the dynamical critical exponent is the same as that of the Glauber dynamics, and thus give a strong support to the simple single-spin-transition dynamics. Finally, we give a brief discussion on the results.