Channel concentration of critical quantum geometry
Abstract
The quantum metric quantifies the total ground-state response along a parameter direction, but does not resolve how excitations share that response. We define channel concentration (CC) as the sum of squared normalized response weights over specified excitation channels, such as momentum blocks. An exact finite-size theorem yields thermodynamic CCs of 2/3 for the field response of the critical transverse-field Ising model and 1/3 for the half-filled XX pairing response, despite the same leading metric scaling. In finite-size approaches to the XY Lifshitz point, field and anisotropy perturbations yield different concentrations despite a common limiting Hamiltonian with quadratic dispersion. In a unitary 1+1-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) on a circle, we consider a nondegenerate vacuum in a fixed sector perturbed by one spatially integrated scalar primary. We derive complete zero-momentum energy-level response weights, including descendants. For scaling dimension 0<Δ<3/2, these weights determine the normalized response distribution and an exact universal concentration function. The expression reproduces the exact Ising lattice limit 2/3 and gives approximately 0.8515 for the three-state Potts thermal field, compared with approximately 0.800 from an exponent-only approximation. Finite-size interacting calculations compare concentrations and ranked response weights over many-body energy levels. These exact benchmarks show which response distinctions total metric scaling misses and guide comparisons with finite-size interacting spectra.
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BibTeX
@misc{lee2026channel,
title = {{Channel concentration of critical quantum geometry}},
author = {Qian-Rui Lee and Daw-Wei Wang},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.24905},
eprint = {2609.24905},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.24905},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Channel concentration of critical quantum geometry
AU - Qian-Rui Lee
AU - Daw-Wei Wang
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/21
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.24905
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.24905
AB - The quantum metric quantifies the total ground-state response along a parameter direction, but does not resolve how excitations share that response. We define channel concentration (CC) as the sum of squared normalized response weights over specified excitation channels, such as momentum blocks. An exact finite-size theorem yields thermodynamic CCs of 2/3 for the field response of the critical transverse-field Ising model and 1/3 for the half-filled XX pairing response, despite the same leading metric scaling. In finite-size approaches to the XY Lifshitz point, field and anisotropy perturbations yield different concentrations despite a common limiting Hamiltonian with quadratic dispersion. In a unitary 1+1-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) on a circle, we consider a nondegenerate vacuum in a fixed sector perturbed by one spatially integrated scalar primary. We derive complete zero-momentum energy-level response weights, including descendants. For scaling dimension 0<Δ<3/2, these weights determine the normalized response distribution and an exact universal concentration function. The expression reproduces the exact Ising lattice limit 2/3 and gives approximately 0.8515 for the three-state Potts thermal field, compared with approximately 0.800 from an exponent-only approximation. Finite-size interacting calculations compare concentrations and ranked response weights over many-body energy levels. These exact benchmarks show which response distinctions total metric scaling misses and guide comparisons with finite-size interacting spectra.
ER -