In this paper, we consider the classical Ising model on the Cayley tree of order k and show the existence of the phase transition in the following sense: there exists two quantum Markov states which are not quasi-equivalent. It turns out that the found critical temperature coincides with usual critical temperature.
In the present paper, we construct quantum Markov chains (QMC) over the Comb graphs. As an application of this construction, it is proved the existence of the disordered phase for the Ising type models (within QMC scheme) over the Comb graphs. Moreover, it is also established that the associated QMC has clustering property with respect to translations of the graph. We stress that this paper is the first one where a nontrivial example of QMC over non-regular graphs is given.
We continue our study of the full set of translation-invariant splitting Gibbs measures (TISGMs, translation-invariant tree-indexed Markov chains) for the $q$-state Potts model on a Cayley tree. In our previous work cite{KRK} we gave a full description of the TISGMs, and showed in particular that at sufficiently low temperatures their number is $2^{q}-1$. In this paper we find some regions for the temperature parameter ensuring that a given TISGM is (non-)extreme in the set of all Gibbs measures. In particular we show the existence of a temperature interval for which there are at least $2^{q-1} + q$ extremal TISGMs. For the Cayley tree of order two we give explicit formulae and some numerical values.
In the present paper, we propose a refinement for the notion of quantum Markov states (QMS) on trees. A structure theorem for QMS on general trees is proved. We notice that any restriction of QMS in the sense of Ref. cite{AccFid03} is not necessarily to be a QMS. It turns out that localized QMS has the mentioned property which is called textit{sub-Markov states}, this allows us to characterize translation invariant QMS on regular trees.
Inspired by the classical spectral analysis of birth-death chains using orthogonal polynomials, we study an analogous set of constructions in the context of open quantum dynamics and related walks. In such setting, block tridiagonal matrices and matrix-valued orthogonal polynomials are the natural objects to be considered. We recall the problems of the existence of a matrix of measures or weight matrix together with concrete calculations of basic statistics of the walk, such as site recurrence and first passage time probabilities, with these notions being defined in terms of a quantum trajectories formalism. The discussion concentrates on the models of quantum Markov chains, due to S. Gudder, and on the particular class of open quantum walks, due to S. Attal et al. The folding trick for birth-death chains on the integers is revisited in this setting together with applications of the matrix-valued Stieltjes transform associated with the measures, thus extending recent results on the subject. Finally, we consider the case of non-symmetric weight matrices and explore some examples.
For a one-dimensional spin chain with random local interactions, we prove that many-body localization follows from a physically reasonable assumption that limits the amount of level attraction in the system. The construction uses a sequence of local unitary transformations to diagonalize the Hamiltonian and connect the exact many-body eigenfunctions to the original basis vectors.