Quantum Fisher Information as a Measure of Symmetry Breaking in Quantum Many-Body Systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07468v1
• Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2025 07:45:58 GMT
• Title: Quantum Fisher Information as a Measure of Symmetry Breaking in Quantum Many-Body Systems
• Authors: Shion Yamashika, Shimpei Endo, Hiroyasu Tajima,
• Abstract summary: We show that the quantum Fisher information (QFI) captures symmetry breaking in condensed-matter systems.<n>Results highlight the QFI as a universal and physically meaningful diagnostic of symmetry breaking in both equilibrium and non-equilibrium quantum many-body systems.
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• Abstract: Symmetry breaking underlies diverse phenomena from phase transitions in condensed matter to fundamental interactions in gauge theories. Despite many proposed indicators, a general quantification of symmetry breaking that is faithful, computable, and valid in the thermodynamic limit has remained elusive. Here, within quantum resource theory, we propose the quantum Fisher information (QFI) as such a measure. We demonstrate its utility by computing QFI for paradigmatic models: in the BCS superconductor, the QFI counts the number of Cooper pairs; in the transverse-field XY spin chains, it captures topological phase transition that has no local order parameter; and in quantum quench dynamics, it allows us to exactly derive the microscopic origin and conditions of the quantum Mpemba effect in terms of excitation propagation, including in the thermodynamic limit--beyond the reach of previous analyses. Our results show that the QFI, which is a complete resource monotone in the resource theory of asymmetry that plays the role of entanglement entropy in entanglement theory, faithfully captures symmetry breaking in condensed-matter systems. These results highlight the QFI as a universal and physically meaningful diagnostic of symmetry breaking in both equilibrium and non-equilibrium quantum many-body systems.

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