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In this manuscript, we study the non-Hermitian spin-1/2 XY model in the presence of the alternating, imaginary and transverse magnetic fields. For the two-site spin system, we solve exactly the energy spectrum and phase diagram, also calculate the ground-state and thermal entanglements by using the concept of the concurrence. It is found that the two-site concurrence in the eigenstate which only depends on the imaginary magnetic field {\eta} is always equal to one in the region of PT symmetry, while it decreases with {\eta} in the PT-symmetric broken region. Especially, the concurrence shows the non-analytic behavior at the exceptional point, and the same is true in the case of the biorthogonal basis, which indicates that the concurrence can characterize the phase transition in this non-Hermitian system. The interesting thing is that {\eta} weakens the thermal entanglement when the system is isotropic and enhances the entanglement when the system becomes the Ising model. For the one-dimensional spin chain, the magnetization and entanglement are further studied by using the two-spin cluster mean-field approximation. The results show that their variations have opposite trends with the magnetic fields. Moreover, the system exists the first-order quantum phase transitions for some anisotropic parameters in the PT-symmetry region, and the entanglement changes suddenly at the quantum phase transition point., Comment: 25 pages, 13 figures

The spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg systems are studied on three typical diamond-type hierarchical lattices (systems A, B and C) with fractal dimensions 1.63, 2 and 2.58, respectively, and the phase diagrams, critical phenomena and quantum correlations are calculated by a combination of the equivalent transformation and real-space renormalization group methods. We find that there exist a reentrant behavior for system A and a finite temperature transition in the isotropic Heisenberg limit for system C (not for system B). Unlike the ferromagnetic case, the Neel temperatures of antiferromagnetic systems A and B are inversely proportional to ln(Delta_c-Delta) (when Delta->Delta_c) and ln Delta (when Delta->0), respectively. And we also find that there is a turning point of quantum correlation in the isotropic Heisenberg limit Delta=0 where there is a peak of the contour and no matter how large the size of system is, quantum correlation will change to zero in the Ising limit for the three systems. The quantum correlation decreases with the increase of lattice size L and it is almost zero when L>=30 for system A, and for systems B and C, they still exist when L is larger than that of system A. Moreover, as an example, we discuss the error of result in system A, which is induced by the noncommutativity., Comment: 28 pages, 13 figures

In this manuscript we investigate the one-dimensional anisotropic XY model with ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic interactions, which gives more interesting phase diagrams and dynamic critical behaviors. By using quantum renormalization-group method, we find that there are three phases in the system: antiferromagnetic Ising phase ordered in "x direction", spin-fluid phase and ferromagnetic Ising phase ordered in "y direction". In order to study the dynamical critical behaviors of the system, two quantum quenching methods are used. In both cases, the concurrence, a measure of entanglement, oscillates periodically over time. We show that the periods are the same and can be used as a new order parameter for quantum phase transitions. For further discussion, we derive the scaling exponent, {\theta}, and correlation length exponent, {\nu}, from the scaling behavior of the evolution period., Comment: 15 pages,6 figures

Quantum entanglement and correlations in the spin-1 Heisenberg chain with single-ion anisotropy are investigated using the quantum renormalization group method. Negativity and quantum discord (QD) are calculated with various anisotropy parameters $\bigtriangleup$ and single-ion anisotropy parameters $D$. We focus on the relations between two abovementioned physical quantities and on transitions between the N\'eel, Haldane, and Large-D phases. It is found that both negativity and QD exhibit step-like patterns in different phases as the size of the system increases. Interestingly, the single-ion anisotropy parameter $D$, which can be modulated using nuclear electric resonance (2020 \textit{Nature} \textbf{579} 205), plays an important role in tuning the quantum phase transition (QPT) of the system. Both the first partial derivative of the negativity and quantum discord with respect to $D$ or $\bigtriangleup$ exhibit nonanalytic behavior at the phase transition points, which corresponds directly to the divergence of the correlation length. The quantum correlation critical exponents derived from negativity and QD are equal, and are the reciprocal of the correlation length exponent at each critical point. This work extends the application of quantum entanglement and correlations as tools for depicting QPTs in spin-1 systems., Comment: 28 pages, 17 figures

The dynamics of entanglement in the one-dimensional spin-1/2 anisotropic XXZ model is studied using the quantum renormalization-group method. We obtain the analytical expression of the concurrence, for two different quenching methods, it is found that initial state plays a key role in the evolution of system entanglement, i.e., the system returns completely to the initial state every other period. Our computations and analysis indicate that the first derivative of the characteristic time at which the concurrence reaches its maximum or minimum with respect to the anisotropic parameter occurs nonanalytic behaviors at the quantum critical point. Interestingly, the minimum value of the first derivative of the characteristic time versus the size of the system exhibits the scaling behavior which is the same as the scaling behavior of the system ground-state entanglement in equilibrium. In particular, the scaling behavior near the critical point is independent of the initial state., Comment: 14 pages, 5 figure

In the conventional two-point measurement scheme of quantum thermodynamics, quantum coherence is destroyed by the first measurement. But as we know the coherence really plays an important role in the quantum thermodynamics process, and how to describe the work statistics for a quantum coherent process is still an open question. In this paper, we use the full counting statistics method to investigate the effects of quantum coherence on work statistics. First, we give a general discussion and show that for a quantum coherent process, work statistics is very different from that of the two-point measurement scheme, specifically the average work is increased or decreased and the work fluctuation can be decreased by quantum coherence, which strongly depends on the relative phase, the energy level structure and the external protocol. Then, we concretely consider a quenched 1-D transverse Ising model, and show that quantum coherence has a more significant influence on work statistics in the ferromagnetism regime compared with that in the paramagnetism regime, so that due to the presence of quantum coherence the work statistics can exhibit the critical phenonmenon even at high temperature., Comment: published version, 13 pages, 5 figures

Slip-boundary effects on the polar liquid film motor (PLFM) -- a novel micro-fluidic device with important implications for advancing knowledge on liquid micro-film's structure, dynamics, modeling and technology -- are studied. We develop a mathematical model, under slip boundary conditions, describing electro-hydro-dynamical rotations in the PLFMs induced either by direct current (DC) or alternating current (AC) fields. Our main results are: (i) rotation characteristics depend on the ratio $k=l_{s}/D$ ($l_{s}$ denotes the slip length, resulting from the interface's impact on the structure of the liquid and $D$ denotes the film's diameter). (ii) As $k$ ($k>-1/2$) increases: (a) PLFMs subsequently exhibit rotation characteristics under "negative-", "no-", "partial-" and "perfect-" slip boundary conditions; (b) the maximum value of the linear velocity of the steady rotating liquid film increases and its location approaches the film's border; (c) the decay of the angular velocities' dependency on the distance from the center of the film slows down, resulting in a macroscopic flow near the boundary. (iii) In addition to $k$, the rotation characteristics of the AC PLFM depend on the magnitudes, the frequencies, and the phase difference of the AC fields. (iv) Our analytical derived rotation speed distributions are consistent with the existing experimental ones., Comment: 27 pages, 8 figures

We investigate thermal entanglement between two non-nearest-neighbor sites in ferromagnetic Heisenberg chain and on fractal lattices by means of the decimation renormalization-group (RG) method. It is found that the entanglement decreases with increasing temperature and it disappears beyond a critical value T_{c}. Thermal entanglement at a certain temperature first increases with the increase of the anisotropy parameter {\Delta} and then decreases sharply to zero when {\Delta} is close to the isotropic point. We also show how the entanglement evolves as the size of the system L becomes large via the RG method. As L increases, for the spin chain and Koch curve the entanglement between two terminal spins is fragile and vanishes when L\geq17, but for two kinds of diamond-type hierarchical (DH) lattices the entanglement is rather robust and can exist even when L becomes very large. Our result indicates that the special fractal structure can affect the change of entanglement with system size., Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures

Taking one-dimensional random transverse Ising model (RTIM) with the double-Gaussian disorder for example, we investigated the spin autocorrelation function (SAF) and associated spectral density at high temperature by the recursion method. Based on the first twelve recurrants obtained analytically, we have found strong numerical evidence for the long-time tail in the SAF of a single spin. Numerical results indicate that when the standard deviation {\sigma}_{JS} (or {\sigma}_{BS}) of the exchange couplings J_{i} (or the random transverse fields B_{i}) is small, no long-time tail appears in the SAF. The spin system undergoes a crossover from a central-peak behavior to a collective-mode behavior, which is the dynamical characteristics of RTIM with the bimodal disorder. However, when the standard deviation is large enough, the system exhibits similar dynamics behaviors to those of the RTIM with the Gaussian disorder, i.e., the system exhibits an enhanced central-peak behavior for large {\sigma}_{JS} or a disordered behavior for large {\sigma}_{BS}. In this instance, the long-time tails in the SAFs appear, i.e., C(t)\simt^{-2}. Similar properties are obtained when the random variables (J_{i} or B_{i}) satisfy other distributions such as the double-exponential distribution and the double-uniform distribution., Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures

The spin-1 quantum Ising systems with three-spin interactions on two-dimensional triangular lattices are studied by mean-field method. The thermal variations of order parameters and phase diagrams are investigated in detail. The stable, metastable and unstable branches of the order parameters are obtained. According to the stable conditions at critical point, we find that the systems exhibit tricritical points. With crystal field and biquadratic interactions, the system has rich phase diagrams with single reentrant or double reentrant phase transitions for appropriate ranges of the both parameters., Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures

Using semiclassical approximation method, Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of a relativistic ideal boson gas (RIBG) with and without antibosons in three-dimensional (3-D) harmonic traps is investigated. The BEC transition temperature T_{c} and the Helmholtz free energy at T_{c} are calculated. The effect of the rest mass of the boson on the properties of the system is also studied. We find that T_{c} of RIBG is higher than that of the nonrelativistic approximation. The RIBG with antibosons is also investigated and it is found that the Helmholtz free energy of the system with antibosons at T_{c} is lower than that of the system without antibosons. It implies that the system with antibosons is more stable., Comment: 8 pages, 7 figures

In this paper, the phase diagrams and the critical behavior of the spin-1/2 anisotropic XXZ ferromagnetic model (the anisotropic parameter {\Delta}\in(-\infty,1]) on two kinds of diamond-type hierarchical (DH) lattices with fractal dimensions d_{f}=2.58 and 3, respectively, are studied via the real-space renormalization group method. It is found that in the isotropic Heisenberg limit ({\Delta}=0), there exist finite temperature phase transitions for the two kinds of DH lattices above. The systems are also investigated in the range of -\infty<{\Delta}<0 and it is found that they exhibit XY-like fixed points. Meanwhile, the critical exponents of the above two systems are also calculated. The results show that for the lattice with d_{f}=2.58, the value of the Ising critical exponent {\nu}_{I} is the same as that of classical Ising model and the isotropic Heisenberg critical exponent {\nu}_{H} is a finite value, and for the lattice with d_{f}=3, the values of {\nu}_{I} and {\nu}_{H} agree well with those obtained on the simple cubic lattice. We also discuss the quantum fluctuation at all temperatures and find the fluctuation of XY-like model is stronger than the anistropic Heisenberg model at the low-temperature region. By analyzing the fluctuation, we conclude that there will be remarkable effect of neglecting terms on the final results of the XY-like model. However, we can obtain approximate result at bigger temperatures and give qualitatively correct picture of the phase diagram., Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures

In this second part of the series of two papers we report another type of generalized Migdal-Kadanoff bond-moving renormalization group transformation recursion procedures considering symmetrical single bond operations on fractals. The critical behavior of the spin-continuous Gaussian model constructed on the Sierpinski gaskets is studied as an example to reveal its predominance in application. Results obtained by this means are found to be in good conformity with those obtained from other studies., Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures

We report in a series of papers two types of generalized Migdal-Kadanoff bond-moving renormalization group transformation recursion procedures. In this first part the symmetrical operation of half length bonds on translational invariant lattices are considered. As an illustration of their predominance in application, the procedures are used to study the critical behavior of the spin-continuous Gaussian model constructed on the triangular lattices. Results such as the correlation length critical exponents obtained by this means are found to be in good conformity with the classical results from other studies., Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures

The state function entropy and its quantum thermodynamical implication for two typical dissipative systems with anomalous spectral densities are studied by investigating on their low-temperature quantum behavior. In all cases it is found that the entropy decays quickly and vanishes as the temperature approaches zero. This reveals a good conformity with the third law of thermodynamics and provides another evidence for the validity of fundamental thermodynamical laws in the quantum dissipative region., Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures

We study the quantum entanglement and quantum phase transition (QPT) of the anisotropic spin-1/2 XY model with staggered Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction by means of quantum renormalization group method. The scaling of coupling constants and the critical points of the system are obtained. It is found that when the number of renormalization group iterations tends to infinity, the system exhibit a QPT between the spin-fluid and N\'eel phases which corresponds with two saturated values of the concurrence for a given value of the strength of DM interaction. The DM interaction can enhance the entanglement and influence the QPT of the system. To gain further insight, the first derivative of the entanglement exhibit a nonanalytic behavior at the critical point and it directly associates with the divergence of the correlation length. This shows that the correlation length exponent is closely related to the critical exponent, i.e., the scaling behaviors of the system., Comment: 12 pages, 7 figures

In this paper the entanglement and quantum phase transition of the anisotropic s=1/2 XY model are studied by using the quantum renormalization group method. By solving the renormalization equations, we get the trivial fixed point and the untrivial fixed point which correspond to the phase of the system and the critical point, respectively. Then the concurrence between two blocks are calculated and it is found that when the number of the iterations of the renormalziation trends infinity, the concurrence develops two staturated values which are associated with two different phases, i.e., Ising-like and spin-fluid phases. We also investigate the first derivative of the concurrence, and find that there exists non-analytic behaviors at the quantum critical point, which directly associate with the divergence of the correlation length. Further insight, the scaling behaviors of the system are analyzed, it is shown that how the maximum value of the first derivative of the concurrence reaches the infinity and how the critical point is touched as the size of the system becomes large., Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures

The dynamics of the one-dimensional spin-1/2 quantum XXZ model with random fields is investigated by the recurrence relations method. When the fields satisfy the bimodal distribution, the system shows a crossover between a collective-mode behavior and a central-peak one with increasing field while the anisotropy parameter {\Delta} is small; a disordered behavior replaces the crossover as {\Delta} increases. For the cases of Gaussian and double-Gaussian distributions, when the standard deviation is small, the results are similar to that of the bimodal distribution; while the standard deviation is large enough, the system only shows a disordered behavior regardless of {\Delta}., Comment: 12 pages, 6 figures

The ferromagnetic properties of the spin-1 BEG model on finite-size Cayley tree are investigated using the exact recursion method. The spontaneous magnetization of the system is studied in detail for different values of the reduced crystal-field interaction D/J, and it is found that there is an unusual behavior (anti-Curie temperature) when D/J>2.0. We also obtain the Curie temperature of this finite-size system. When the system size is large enough, our results will fit well with that in the thermodynamic limit., Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures

The dynamics of the one-dimensional random transverse Ising model with both nearest-neighbor (NN) and next-nearest-neighbor (NNN) interactions is studied in the high-temperature limit by the method of recurrence relations. Both the time-dependent transverse correlation function and the corresponding spectral density are calculated for two typical disordered states. We find that for the bimodal disorder the dynamics of the system undergoes a crossover from a collective-mode behavior to a central-peak one and for the Gaussian disorder the dynamics is complex. For both cases, it is found that the central-peak behavior becomes more obvious and the collective-mode behavior becomes weaker as $K_{i}$ increase, especially when $K_{i}>J_{i}/2$ ($J_{i}$ and $K_{i}$ are exchange couplings of the NN and NNN interactions, respectively). However, the effects are small when the NNN interactions are weak ($K_{i}