Quantum Physics

Phase diagram of the topologically frustrated XY chain

Landau theory’s implicit assumption that microscopic details cannot affect the global phases has been challenged only recently in systems such as antiferromagnetic quantum spin chains with periodic boundary conditions. The new paradigm of topological …

Frustrating quantum batteries

We propose to use a quantum spin chain as a device to store and release energy coherently (namely, a quantum battery) and we investigate the interplay between its internal correlations and outside decoherence. We employ the quantum Ising chain in a …

Magic phase transition and non-local complexity in generalized W State

We employ the Stabilizer Renyi Entropy (SRE) to characterize a quantum phase transition that has so far eluded any standard description and can thus now be explained in terms of the interplay between its non-stabilizer properties and entanglement. …

interplay between local and non-local frustration in the 1D ANNNI chain I -- The even case

We consider the effects of the competition between different sources of frustration in 1D spin chains through the analysis of the paradigmatic ANNNI model, which possesses an extensive amount of frustration of local origin due to the competition …

Long-range entanglement and topological excitations

opological order comes in different forms, and its classification and detection is an important field of modern research. In this work, we show that the Disconnected Entanglement Entropy, a measure originally introduced to identify topological …

Complexity of frustration: a new source of non-local non-stabilizerness

We advance the characterization of complexity in quantum many-body systems by examining W-states embedded in a spin chain. Such states show an amount of non-stabilizerness or "magic", measured as the Stabilizer Rényi Entropy, that grows …

Random unitaries, Robustness, and Complexity of Entanglement

It is widely accepted that the dynamic of entanglement in presence of a generic circuit can be predicted by the knowledge of the statistical properties of the entanglement spectrum. We tested this assumption by applying a Metropolis-like entanglement …

Axion like particles, fifth force and neutron interferometry

We report on recent result according to which the fermion-fermion interaction mediated by axions and axion–like particles can be revealed by means of neutron interferometry. We assume that the initial neutron beam is split in two beams which are …

Anomalous diffusion in the Long-Range Haken-Strobl-Reineker model

We analyze the propagation of excitons in a d-dimensional lattice with power-law hopping ∝1/r^α in the presence of dephasing, described by a generalized Haken-Strobl-Reineker model. We show that in the strong dephasing (quantum Zeno) regime the …

Simulating continuous symmetry models with discrete ones

Especially in one dimension, models with discrete and continuous symmetries display different physical properties, starting from the existence of long-range order. In this work, we that, by adding topological frustration, an antiferromagnetic XYZ …