Nonequilibrium Steady State in a Quantum System: One-dimensional Transverse Ising Model with Energy Current
Statistical Mechanics
2009-10-28 v1
Abstract
We study the nonequilibrium steady states of an Ising chain in a transverse field, h, by investigating the effect of a field, lambda, which drives the current of energy. The zero-temperature, h-lambda phase diagram is determined exactly and it is found that the energy current appears continuously above a threshold, lambda > lambda_c(h). The long-range magnetic order (present for h<h_c, lambda < lambda_c) is destroyed in the current-carrying state where the correlations are characterized by power-law, oscillatory decay. The mechanism which generates the power-law correlations in the current-carrying state is discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9612047,
title = {Nonequilibrium Steady State in a Quantum System: One-dimensional Transverse Ising Model with Energy Current},
author = {T. Antal and Z. Racz and L. Sasvari},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9612047},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, RevTeX, 2 PostScript figures, to appear in Phys.Rev.Lett