Talk:Quantum phase transition

What does "Such quantum phase transitions can be phase transition or continuous" mean? I guess it is a typo. What should it say?

what is so "quantum" about a QPT?
I fail to see in what sense quantum effects are relevant for a QPT. Take a classical antiferromagnetic spin lattice, for example: why shouldn't there be a zero temperature phase transition when the external magnetic field is varied? There is a well-defined (possibly degenerate) classical ground state, and its energy might change in a non-analytic way under variation of the magnetic field.

Also, the statement "A classical system does not have entropy at zero temperature" also applies in the quantum case since a pure state has vanishing entropy. - Saibod 11:05, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

This article is full of such statements; here's another: "Also at finite temperatures, quantum fluctuations with an energy scale of ħω and classical fluctuations with an energy scale of kBT compete." It's a meaningless statement. Wikibearwithme (talk) 06:06, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

I don't know if the term is appropriate, but......
Biological quantum transition --222.64.212.180 (talk) 01:38, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * http://scholar.google.com.hk/scholar?start=0&q=allintitle:+biological+quantum+transition&hl=en&as_sdt=2000

Don't know if the topic of.....
Quantum interference can be auto-directed --222.64.212.180 (talk) 01:48, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * http://scholar.google.com.hk/scholar?as_q=quantum+interference&num=10&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=title&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&as_sdt=1.&as_sdtp=on&as_sdts=5&hl=en

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Quantum invasion --222.64.212.180 (talk) 01:52, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
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Quantum spirituality --222.64.212.180 (talk) 02:11, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?hl=en&newwindow=1&q=allintitle%3A%20spiritual%20quantum&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=ws
 * http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?hl=en&q=allintitle%3A+quantum+spirituality&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0

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Quantum ghost and soul --222.64.212.180 (talk) 02:14, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
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--222.64.212.180 (talk) 02:16, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?hl=en&q=allintitle%3A+quantum+soul&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0

Is it mistaken by the sign > ?
It says "For $$\hbar \omega > k_{B}T$$, quantum fluctuations will dominate the system's properties." But intuitively, if $$k_{B}T$$ is smaller, then thermo-excitation can be more easily excited and thus play a role in the physical properties. So I would think that there the > sign should be replaced with < sign. But then, another question kicks in. It is later mentioned that "$$\omega$$ is the characteristic frequency of a quantum oscillation and inversely proportional to the correlation time.", which means small $$\omega$$ implies longer correlation time, and thus presumably, longer correlation length as well. Under very low or even vanishing temperature, what is the energy source to lead to such wide range collective motions, which could be infinite as the system becomes in thermodynamic limit?

This Article Needs Lots of Work
It's not clear if the author is deficient in knowledge of phase transitions, or if they simply are unable to translate their knowledge into logical grammar. For example: "Talking about quantum phase transitions means talking about transitions at T = 0: by tuning a non-temperature parameter like pressure, chemical composition or magnetic field, one could suppress e.g. some transition temperature like the Curie- or Néel- temperature to 0 K. "

From this statement, it is clearly a bit of both. Recommend this article be relegated to starter class.Wikibearwithme (talk) 03:12, 17 January 2016 (UTC)