Critical exponents for an impurity in a bosonic Josephson junction: Position measurement as a phase transition
J. Mumford, D. H. J. O'Dell
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevA.90.063617 · Physical Review A
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Abstract
We use fidelity susceptibility to calculate quantum critical scaling exponents for a system consisting of N identical bosons interacting with a single impurity atom in a double-well potential (bosonic Josephson junction). Above a critical value of the boson-impurity interaction energy there is a spontaneous breaking of Z2 symmetry corresponding to a second-order quantum phase transition from a balanced to an imbalanced number of particles in either the left- or the right-hand well. We show that the exponents match those in the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick and Dicke models, suggesting that the impurity model is in the same universality class. The phase transition can be interpreted as a measurement of the position of the impurity by the bosons.
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