Analysis of quantum correlations within the ground state of a three-level Lipkin model

The performance of beyond mean-field methods in solving the quantum many-body problem for fermions is usually characterized by the correlation energy measured with respect to the underlying mean-field value. In this paper we address the issue of characterizing the amount of correlations associated t...

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Autores: Faba, Javier, Martín, Vicente, Robledo Martín, Luis Miguel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/706045
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/706045
https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.105.062449
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Correlation Energy
Field Values
Lipkin Model
Mean Field Methods
Performance
Quantum Correlations
Quantum Discords
Quantum Many-Body Problems
Three-Level
Física
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Sumario:The performance of beyond mean-field methods in solving the quantum many-body problem for fermions is usually characterized by the correlation energy measured with respect to the underlying mean-field value. In this paper we address the issue of characterizing the amount of correlations associated to different approximations from a quantum information perspective. With this goal in mind, we analyze the traditional Hartree-Fock (HF) method with spontaneous symmetry breaking, the HF with symmetry restoration and the generator coordinate method in an exactly solvable fermion model known as the three-level Lipkin model. To characterize correlations including entanglement and beyond we use the quantum discord between different partition orbitals. We find that for physically motivated partitions, the quantum discord of the exact ground state is reasonably well reproduced by the different approximations. However, other partitions create "fake quantum correlations" in order to capture quantum correlations corresponding to partitions for which the Hartree-Fock solution fails. Those are removed and redistributed through a symmetry restoration process