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arxiv: 0704.1194 · v1 · submitted 2007-04-10 · ❄️ cond-mat.dis-nn · cond-mat.stat-mech

Finite-size scaling of pseudo-critical point distributions in the random transverse-field Ising chain

classification ❄️ cond-mat.dis-nn cond-mat.stat-mech
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We study the distribution of finite size pseudo-critical points in a one-dimensional random quantum magnet with a quantum phase transition described by an infinite randomness fixed point. Pseudo-critical points are defined in three different ways: the position of the maximum of the average entanglement entropy, the scaling behavior of the surface magnetization, and the energy of a soft mode. All three lead to a log-normal distribution of the pseudo-critical transverse fields, where the width scales as $L^{-1/\nu}$ with $\nu=2$ and the shift of the average value scales as $L^{-1/\nu_{typ}}$ with $\nu_{typ}=1$, which we related to the scaling of average and typical quantities in the critical region.

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