State Space Geometry of the Spin-1 Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Chain

TL;DR

This paper explores the geometry of the state space in a spin-1 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chain, linking state space curvature to multipartite entanglement and identifying critical and topological phases through their geometric properties.

Contribution

It introduces a geometric approach to analyze multipartite entanglement in the spin-1 chain, connecting state space curvature to quantum criticality and topological phases.

Findings

Large state space curvature at quantum critical points and SPT phases.

Separable phases are characterized by flat state space.

Entanglement in the SPT phase is enhanced by anisotropy and persists under magnetic fields.

Abstract

We study the phase diagram of the spin-1 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chain with uniaxial anisotropy and applied magnetic field in terms of the genuine multipartite entanglement as witnessed by the mean quantum Fisher information density. By generalizing the manifold studied in [1, 2] to the many body case for spin 1, we connect the state space curvature in the vicinity of the ground state of the Heisenberg chain to the genuine multipartite entanglement. Our analysis demonstrates that the quantum critical points and symmetry protected topological (SPT) phase exhibit large state space curvature, while the separable phases are completely flat, offering insight into the physical interpretation of state space curvature. We further show that the entanglement in the SPT phase is enhanced by the presence of uniaxial anisotropy, and undiminished in the presence of uniform magnetic fields. The magnon condensate phase induced by large fields is shown to emanate from the Gaussian critical point, and exhibits massive multipartite entanglement over a robust region of the parameter space.