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Quantum simulation has emerged as a valuable arena for demonstrating and understanding the capabilities of near-term quantum computers. Quantum annealing has been used successfully in simulating a range of open quantum systems, both at…

We consider the finite-time quench dynamics in the quantum transverse field Ising model which exhibits a second order phase transition from a paramagnetic to a ferromagnetic phase, as the transverse magnetic field is decreased. These…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-08 Lakshita Jindal , Kavita Jain

Understanding how non-adiabatic terms affect quantum dynamics is fundamental to improving various protocols for quantum technologies. We present a novel approach to computing the Adiabatic Gauge Potential (AGP), which gives information on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Ewen D C Lawrence , Sebastian F J Schmid , Ieva Čepaitė , Peter Kirton , Callum W Duncan

In the nonadiabatic dynamics across a quantum phase transition, the Kibble-Zurek mechanism predicts that the formation of topological defects is suppressed as a universal power law with the quench time. In inhomogeneous systems, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-05 F. J. Gómez-Ruiz , A. del Campo

We employ an adaptation of a strong-disorder renormalization-group technique in order to analyze the ferro-paramagnetic quantum phase transition of Ising chains with aperiodic but deterministic couplings under the action of a transverse…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-16 Fleury J. Oliveira Filho , Maicon S. Faria , André P. Vieira

When an external parameter drives a system across a quantum phase transition at a finite rate, work is performed on the system and entropy is dissipated, due to the creation of excitations via the Kibble-Zurek mechanism. Although both the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Zhanyu Ma , Andrew K. Mitchell , Eran Sela

The Kibble-Zurek mechanism quantifies defect formation during adiabatic passage across a continuous phase transition, providing key insights into universality in quantum many-body systems. We explore counting statistics of defects in…

We study analytically and numerically quench dynamics and defects formation in the quantum Ising model in the presence of a time-dependent transverse magnetic field. We generalize the Landau-Ziner formula to the case of non-adiabatic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-01 Alexander I Nesterov , Mónica F Ramírez

We introduce a scheme based on adiabatic passage that allows for long-range quantum communication through tight-binding chain with always-on interaction. By adiabatically varying the external gate voltage applied on the system, the electron…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-10 Bing Chen , Wei Fan , Yan Xu , Zhao-yang Chen , Xun-li Feng , C. H. Oh

Suppressing undesired nonunitary effects is a major challenge in quantum computation and quantum control. In this work, by considering the adiabatic dynamics in presence of a surrounding environment, we theoretically and experimentally…

The conventional Kibble-Zurek (KZ) mechanism, describing driven dynamics across critical points based on the adiabatic-impulse scenario (AIS), have attracted broad attentions. However, the driven dynamics in tricritical point with two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-20 Ting-Long Wang , Yi-Fan Jiang , Shuai Yin

The operation of near-term quantum technologies requires the development of feasible, implementable, and robust strategies of controlling complex many body systems. To this end, a variety of techniques, so-called "shortcuts to adiabaticty",…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-21 Artur Soriani , Eduardo Miranda , Sebastian Deffner , Marcus V. S. Bonança

We propose an optimized adiabatic-impulse (OAI) protocol that substantially reduces the evolution time for crossing a quantum phase transition while preserving Kibble-Zurek (KZ) scaling. Near criticality, the control parameter is ramped…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Han-Chuan Kou , Zhi-Han Zhang , Xin-Hui Wu , Yan Zhou , Gang Chen , Peng Li

Metastability is a quintessential feature of first order quantum phase transitions, which is lost either by dynamical instability or by nucleating bubbles of a true vacuum through quantum tunneling. By considering a drive across the first…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-28 Aritra Sinha , Titas Chanda , Jacek Dziarmaga

We analyze the crossing of a quantum critical point based on exact results for the transverse XY model. In dependence of the change rate of the driving field, the evolution of the ground state is studied while the transverse magnetic field…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-06-13 Andrea Fubini , Giuseppe Falci , Andreas Osterloh

Quantum Ising model is an exactly solvable model of quantum phase transition. This paper gives an exact solution when the system is driven through the critical point at finite rate. The evolution goes through a series of Landau-Zener level…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Jacek Dziarmaga

Adiabatic processes in the quantum Ising model and the anisotropic Heisenberg model are discussed. The adiabatic processes are assumed to consist in the slow variation of the strength of the magnetic field that environs the spin-systems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Murg , J. I. Cirac

The quantum phase transitions provide a paradigm for studying collective quantum phenomena that are a result of competing non-commuting interactions. This paper will study the ground state properties and quantum critical dynamics of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Rudraksh Sharma

The quantum adiabatic theorem is a fundamental result in quantum mechanics, with a multitude of applications, both theoretical and practical. Here, we investigate the dynamics of adiabatic processes for quantum many-body systems %in detail…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Vibhu Mishra , Salvatore Manmana , Stefan Kehrein

We study the non-equilibrium dynamics due to slowly taking a quasiperiodic Hamiltonian across its quantum critical point. The special quasiperiodic Hamiltonian that we study here has two different types of critical lines belonging to two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-23 Revathy B. S. , Uma Divakaran