Spectral function and fidelity susceptibility in quantum critical phenomena

Department of Physics and ITP, The Chinese University of Hong Kong - Hong Kong, China

^(a) wcyu@phy.cuhk.edu.hk

Received: 12 August 2014
Accepted: 24 September 2014

Abstract

In this paper, we derive a simple equality that relates the spectral function and the fidelity susceptibility , i.e.  with η being the half-width of the resonance peak in the spectral function. Since the spectral function can be measured in experiments by the neutron scattering or the angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) technique, our equality makes the fidelity susceptibility directly measurable in experiments. Physically, our equality reveals also that the resonance peak in the spectral function actually denotes a quantum criticality-like point at which the solid state seemly undergoes a significant change.