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arxiv: 1606.06631 · v1 · submitted 2016-06-21 · 🪐 quant-ph · math-ph· math.MP

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Classification of excited-state quantum phase transitions for arbitrary number of degrees of freedom

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Classical stationary points of an analytic Hamiltonian induce singularities of the density of quantum energy levels and their flow with a control parameter in the system's infinite-size limit. We show that for a system with $f$ degrees of freedom, a non-degenerate stationary point with index $r$ causes a discontinuity (for $r$ even) or divergence ($r$ odd) of the $(f-1)$ th derivative of both density and flow of the spectrum. An increase of flatness for a degenerate stationary point shifts the singularity to lower derivatives. The findings are verified in an $f=3$ toy model.

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