Quantum phase transitions for an integrable quantum Rabi-like model with two interacting qubits

TL;DR

This paper introduces an exactly solvable two-qubit quantum Rabi-like model that exhibits first-order quantum phase transitions, with analytical solutions revealing its integrability and critical phenomena.

Contribution

It demonstrates the integrability of a two-interacting-qubit Rabi-like model by reducing it to two independent single-spin Rabi models, revealing new quantum phase transition insights.

Findings

Exact reduction to independent single-spin Rabi models

Existence of first-order quantum phase transitions

Discontinuous changes in magnetization, photon number, and concurrence

Abstract

A two-interacting-qubit quantum Rabi-like model with vanishing transverse fields on the qubit-pair is studied. Independently of the coupling regime, this model can be exactly and unitarily reduced to two independent single-spin quantum Rabi models, where the spin-spin coupling plays the role of the transverse field. This transformation and the analytical treatment of the single-spin quantum Rabi model provide the key to prove the integrability of our model. The existence of different first-order quantum phase transitions, characterized by discontinuous two-spin magnetization, mean photon number and concurrence, is brought to light.