Entropy accumulation near quantum critical points: effects beyond hyperscaling

TL;DR

This paper investigates entropy accumulation near quantum critical points in two models, revealing that it is a robust property even when effects beyond hyperscaling are considered, with detailed scaling analyses.

Contribution

The study provides explicit scaling forms and analyzes effects beyond hyperscaling in quantum critical models, demonstrating the robustness of entropy accumulation.

Findings

Entropy accumulation is confirmed in both models.

Effects beyond hyperscaling are subleading and do not negate entropy accumulation.

Scaling forms are derived for the free energy near critical points.

Abstract

Entropy accumulation near a quantum critical point was expected based on general scaling arguments, and has recently been explicitly observed. We explore this issue further in two canonical models for quantum criticality, with particular attention paid to the potential effects beyond hyperscaling. In the case of a one-dimensional transverse field Ising model, we derive the specific scaling form of the free energy. It follows from this scaling form that the singular temperature dependence at the critical field has a vanishing prefactor but the singular field dependence at zero temperature is realized. For the spin-density-wave model above its upper critical dimension, we show that the dangerously irrelevant quartic coupling comes into the free energy in a delicate way but in the end yields only subleading contributions beyond hyperscaling. We conclude that entropy accumulation near quantum critical point is a robust property of both models.