Ground-state wave function of the quantum Frenkel-Kontorova model

The wave function of an incommensurate ground state for a one-dimensional discrete sine-Gordon model—the Frenkel-Kontorova (FK) model—at zero temperature is calculated by the quantum Monte Carlo method. It is found that the ground state wave function crosses over from an extended state to a localized state when the coupling constant exceeds a certain critical value. So, although the quantum fluctuation has smeared out the breaking of analyticity transition as observed in the classical case, the remnant of this transition is still discernible in the quantum regime.