P. Cejnar, M. Macek, S. Heinze, J. Jolie, J. Dobeš
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Abstract
Quantum phase transitions affecting the structure of ground and excited states of integrable systems with the Mexican-hat type potential are shown to be related to a singular torus of classical orbits passing the point of unstable equilibrium. As a specific example, we consider nuclear collective vibrations described by the O(6)–U(5) transitional Hamiltonian of the interacting boson model. While all states with zero values of the O(5) invariant undergo a continuous phase transition when crossing the energy of unstable equilibrium, the other states evolve in an analytic way.