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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 102, Issue 22, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.102.224401
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We compute the quantum Fisher information (QFI) associated with two different local operators in the ground state of the Kitaev honeycomb model, and find divergent behavior in the second derivatives of these quantities with respect to the driving parameter at the quantum phase transition between the gapped and gapless phases for both fully antiferromagnetic and fully ferromagnetic exchange couplings, thus demonstrating that the second derivative a locally defined, experimentally accessible, QFI can detect topological quantum phase transitions. The QFI associated with a local magnetization operator behaves differently from that associated with a local bond operator depending on whether the critical point is approached from the gapped or gapless side. We show how the behavior of the second derivative of the QFI at the critical point can be understood in terms of the diverging length scales associated to the two and four point correlators of the Majorana degrees of freedom. We present critical exponents associated with the divergences of these length scales.
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