Tong Peiqing, Liu Xiaoxian
Department of Physics and Institute of Theoretical Physics, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210097, People's Republic of China.
Phys Rev Lett. 2006 Jul 7;97(1):017201. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.017201. Epub 2006 Jul 5.
The partition function zeros of the anisotropic XY chain in a complex transverse field are studied analytically and numerically. It is found that the partition function zeros of the periodic and quasiperiodic quantum Ising chain lie on the circle at zero temperature and the radius equal to the values of the critical field. For the periodic and quasiperiodic anisotropic XY chains, the closed curves are split to two or three closed curves as the anisotropic parameter gamma decreases at a given ratio of two kinds of exchange interactions. For the isotropic XX case, the partition function zeros lie on the straight segments which are parallel to the real axis and the segments move towards the real axis as the temperature goes to zero.
