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Necessary and sufficient condition for quantum adiabaticity in a driven one-dimensional impurity-fluid system

Quantum Gases 2018-07-25 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons Quantum Physics

Abstract

We study under what conditions the quantum adiabaticity is maintained in a closed many-body system consisting of a one-dimensional fluid and an impurity particle dragged through the latter by an external force. We employ an effective theory describing the low-energy sector of the system to derive the time dependence of the adiabaticity figure of merit -- the adiabatic fidelity. We find that in order to maintain adiabaticity in a large system the external force, FNF_N, should vanish with the system size, NN, as 1/N1/N or faster. This improves the necessary adiabatic condition FN=O(1/logN)F_N=O(1/\log N) obtained for this system earlier [AIP Conf. Proc. 1936, 020024 (2018)]. Experimental implications of this result and its relation to the quasi-Bloch oscillations of the impurity are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1804.03726,
  title  = {Necessary and sufficient condition for quantum adiabaticity in a driven one-dimensional impurity-fluid system},
  author = {Oleg Lychkovskiy and Oleksandr Gamayun and Vadim Cheianov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.03726},
  year   = {2018}
}
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