Quantum Phase Transitions in Long-Range Interacting Hyperuniform Spin Chains in a Transverse Field

Abstract

Hyperuniform states of matter are characterized by anomalous suppression of long-wavelength density fluctuations. While most of interesting cases of disordered hyperuniformity are provided by complex many-body systems like liquids or amorphous solids, classical spin chains with certain long-range interactions have been shown to demonstrate the same phenomenon. It is well-known that the transverse field Ising model shows a quantum phase transition (QPT) at zero temperature. Under the quantum effects of a transverse magnetic field, classical hyperuniform spin chains are expected to lose their hyperuniformity. High-precision simulations of these cases are complicated because of the presence of highly nontrivial long-range interactions. We perform extensive analysis of these systems using density matrix renormalization group to study the possibilities of phase transitions and the mechanism by which they lose hyperuniformity. We discover first-order QPTs in the hyperuniform spin chains. An interesting feature of the phase transitions in these disordered hyperuniform spin chains is that, depending on the parameter values, the presence of transverse magnetic field may remarkably lead to increase in the order of the ground state as measured by the "$\tau$ order metric," even if hyperuniformity is lost. Therefore, it would be possible to design materials to target specific novel quantum behaviors in the presence of a transverse magnetic field. Our numerical investigations suggest that these spin chains can show no more than two QPTs. We further analyze the long-range interacting spin chains via the Jordan-Wigner mapping, showing that under the pairwise interacting approximation and a mean-field treatment, there can be at most two QPTs. Based on these numerical and theoretical explorations, we conjecture that these spin chains can show a maximum of two QPTs at zero temperature.

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