Current fidelity susceptibility and conductivity in one-dimensional lattice models with open and periodic boundary conditions

Abstract: We study, both numerically and analytically, the finite size scaling of the fidelity susceptibility \chi_{J} with respect to the charge or spin current in one-dimensional lattice models, and relate it to the low-frequency behavior of the corresponding conductivity. It is shown that in gapless systems with open boundary conditions the leading dependence on the system size L stems from the singular part of the conductivity and is quadratic, with a universal form \chi_{J}= 7KL^2 \zeta(3)/2\pi^4 where K is the Luttinger liquid parameter. In contrast to that, for periodic boundary conditions the leading system size dependence is directly connected with the regular part of the conductivity (giving alternative possibility to study low frequency behavior of the regular part of conductivity) and is subquadratic, \chi_{J} \propto L^\gamma(K), (with a K dependent constant \gamma) in most situations linear, \gamma=1. For open boundary conditions, we also study another current-related quantity, the fidelity susceptibility to the lattice tilt \chi_{P} and show that it scales as the quartic power of the system size, \chi_{P}=31KL^4 \zeta(5)/8 u^2 \pi^6, where u is the sound velocity. We comment on the behavior of the current fidelity susceptibility in gapped phases, particularly in the topologically ordered Haldane state.