Revisiting the phase transitions of the Dicke model

The Dicke model exhibits a variety of phase transitions. The quantum phase transition from the normal phase to the super-radiant phase is marked by a dramatic change in the scaling of the participation ratio. We find that the ground state in the super-radiant phase exhibits multifractality manifest in the participation ratio scaling as the square root of the full Hilbert-space dimension. The thermal phase transition temperature, for which an exact analytical expression may be obtained using the partition function, is strikingly captured by the mutual information between two spins. In the excited-state quantum phase transition within the super-radiant phase, there are two cutoff energies; the central energy bands between the lower and upper cutoff energies show distinctly different behaviors. While the level statistics of the central band is Wigner-Dyson, the lower and upper bands show mixed behavior that is closer to Poisson than Wigner-Dyson. This finding is corroborated with the aid of several eigenvector properties: von Neumann entanglement entropy between spins and bosons, the mean photon number, concurrence between two spins, and participation ratio.

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The Dicke model explores various phase transitions, including quantum phase transitions from normal phase to super-radiant phase and thermal phase transitions. The ground state in the super-radiant phase exhibits multifractality, and the level statistics in the excited-state quantum phase transition show distinct behaviors.