Anyons are particles with fractional statistics that exhibit a nontrivial change in the wavefunction under an exchange of particles. Anyons can be considered to be a general category of particles that interpolate between fermions and bosons. We determined the position of the critical points of the one-dimensional anyon-Hubbard model, which was mapped to a modified Bose-Hubbard model where the tunneling depends on the local density and the interchange angle. We studied the latter model by using the density matrix renormalization group method and observed that gapped (Mott insulator) and gapless (superfluid) phases characterized the phase diagram, regardless of the value of the statistical angle. The phase diagram for higher densities was calculated and showed that the Mott lobes increase (decrease) as a function of the statistical angle (global density). The position of the critical point separating the gapped and gapless phases was found using quantum information tools, namely the block von Neumann entropy. We also studied the evolution of the critical point with the global density and the statistical angle and showed that the anyon-Hubbard model with a statistical angle $\theta =\pi/4$ is in the same universality class as the Bose-Hubbard model with two body interactions.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figures. Comments are welcom

We investigated a one-dimensional system of anyons that interact with each other under a local three-body term. Using a fractional Jordan-Wigner transformation, we arrived at a modified Bose-Hubbard model, which exhibits gapped and gapless phases. We built the phase diagram of the system fixing the hopping parameter or the statistics, showing the evolution of the critical points, which were estimated with von Neumann block entropy. A superfluid to Mott insulator quantum phase transition with one particle per site can be driven by the statistics or the interaction. Specifically, we show that for larger angles there is a finite critical value of the interaction at which the Mott phase appears. Also, we found that the critical angles increase with the hopping. Diverse gapless phases were observed away from the pseudo-fermion limit.

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