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Loschmidt-amplitude wave function spectroscopy and the physics of dynamically driven phase transitions

Statistical Mechanics 2020-02-19 v2 Quantum Gases Strongly Correlated Electrons Quantum Physics

Abstract

We introduce the Loschmidt amplitude as a powerful tool to perform spectroscopy of generic many-body wave functions and use it to interrogate the wave function obtained after ramping the transverse field quantum Ising model through its quantum critical point. Previous results are confirmed and a more complete understanding of the population of defects and of the effects of magnon-magnon interaction or finite-size corrections is obtained. The influence of quantum coherence is clarified.

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@article{arxiv.1809.00733,
  title  = {Loschmidt-amplitude wave function spectroscopy and the physics of dynamically driven phase transitions},
  author = {D. M. Kennes and C. Karrasch and A. J. Millis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.00733},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

4.5 pages + SM, 5 + 3 figures, accepted version

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