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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 109, Issue 23, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.237208
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- Spanish Goverment (JdC) [FIS2008-01236, 00784]
- Generalitat de Catalunya [SGR2009-00985, 00347]
- European Community (ERC -QUAGATUA)
- EU (AQUTE, NAMEQUAM)
- ERDF: European Regional Development Fund)
- ICREA Funding Source: Custom
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We investigate the entanglement spectrum near criticality in finite quantum spin chains. Using finite size scaling we show that when approaching a quantum phase transition, the Schmidt gap, i.e., the difference between the two largest eigenvalues of the reduced density matrix lambda(1), lambda(2), signals the critical point and scales with universal critical exponents related to the relevant operators of the corresponding perturbed conformal field theory describing the critical point. Such scaling behavior allows us to identify explicitly the Schmidt gap as a local order parameter. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.237208
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