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Title: Reduced fidelity in the Kitaev honeycomb model

Journal Article · · Physical Review. A
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  1. Department of Physics and ITP, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)

We study reduced fidelity and reduced fidelity susceptibility in the Kitaev honeycomb model. It is shown that the nearest-two-site reduced fidelity susceptibility manifests itself as a peak at the quantum phase transition point, although the one-site reduced fidelity susceptibility vanishes. Our results directly reveal that the reduced fidelity susceptibility can be used to characterize the quantum phase transition in the Kitaev honeycomb model, which suggests that, despite its local nature, the reduced fidelity susceptibility is an accurate marker of the topological phase transition when it is properly chosen.

OSTI ID:
21437876
Journal Information:
Physical Review. A, Vol. 81, Issue 6; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.062350; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 1050-2947
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English