Giant number-parity effect and scalable spin squeezing in Luttinger liquids

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.12746v1
• Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2025 19:23:25 GMT
• Title: Giant number-parity effect and scalable spin squeezing in Luttinger liquids
• Authors: Filippo Caleca, Saverio Bocini, Fabio Mezzacapo, Tommaso Roscilde,
• Abstract summary: We show that finite-size quantum spin systems can be magnetized by the application of a symmetry-breaking field.<n>States prepared by turning off the symmetry-breaking field quasi-adiabatically display scalable spin squeezing.
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• Abstract: Finite-size quantum spin systems can be magnetized by the application of a symmetry-breaking field, but in general their symmetry is expected to be restored once the field is turned off adiabatically. Recently (F. Caleca et al., arXiv:2412.15493) we have shown that systems of half-integer spins with an odd number of sites and a parity-preserving Hamiltonian can retain a finite magnetization, hence exhibiting spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) at finite size. Here we generalize this phenomenon to spin chains whose low-energy physics (in zero field) realizes a Luttinger-liquid phase. We observe that odd-sized chains can exhibit a phenomenon of finite-size quasi-SSB, in which a net sub-extensive magnetization, $M \sim N^{1-1/(4K)}$ is retained, where $N$ is the number of sites and $K$ the Luttinger exponent. Interestingly, the states prepared by turning off the symmetry-breaking field quasi-adiabatically display scalable spin squeezing -- namely stronger the bigger the system -- regardless of the parity of $N$. The scaling of the squeezing parameter is dictated again by the Luttinger exponent, $ξ_R^2 \sim N^{-1+1/(2K)}$. This result shows that scalable quantum correlations with metrological significance, associated typically with high-dimensional systems, can be found as well in gapless one-dimensional ones; and they are a direct consequence of the critical nature of Luttinger liquids.

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