Chirality Quantum Phase Transition in the Dirac oscillator

TL;DR

This paper investigates a relativistic quantum phase transition in a Dirac oscillator system influenced by magnetic fields, revealing changes in energy, quantum fluctuations, statistics, and entanglement properties.

Contribution

It provides analytical characterization of a relativistic quantum phase transition involving chirality interactions in the Dirac oscillator with magnetic fields.

Findings

Identification of a relativistic quantum phase transition driven by chirality interactions.

Analytical expressions for energy gap, order parameter, and quantum fluctuations.

Observation of a transition in entanglement structure from bi-separable to tripartite states.

Abstract

We study a relativistic spin-1/2 fermion subjected to a Dirac oscillator coupling and a constant magnetic field. An interplay between opposed chirality interactions culminates in the appearance of a relativistic quantum phase transition, which can be fully characterized. We obtain analytical expressions for the energy gap, order parameter, and canonical quantum fluctuations across the critical point. Moreover, we also discuss the effect of this phase transition on the statistics of the chiral bosonic ensemble, where its super- or sub-Poissonian nature can be controled by means of external parameters. Finally, we study the entanglement properties between the degrees of freedom in the relativistic ground state, where an interesting transition between a bi-separable and a genuinely tripartite entangled state occurs.