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When a system is driven across a continuous phase transition, the density of topological defects demonstrates a power-law scaling behavior versus the quenching rate, as predicted by Kibble-Zurek mechanism. In this study, we generalized this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-27 Lingzi Huang , Menghua Deng , Chen Sun , Fuxiang Li

We study the quantum Ising model in the transverse inhomogeneous magnetic field. Such a system can be approached numerically through exact diagonalization and analytically through the renormalization group techniques. Basic insights into…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-22 Mateusz Łącki , Bogdan Damski

Universal scaling laws govern the density of topological defects generated while crossing an equilibrium continuous phase transition. The Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) predicts the dependence on the quench time for slow quenches. By…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-07 Wei-can Yang , Makoto Tsubota , Adolfo del Campo , Hua-Bi Zeng

Topological quantum computing promises error-resistant quantum computation without active error correction. However, there is a worry that during the process of executing quantum gates by braiding anyons around each other, extra anyonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-05 Chris Cesare , Andrew J. Landahl , Dave Bacon , Steven T. Flammia , Alice Neels

We analyse stability of the four-dimensional Kitaev model - a candidate for scalable quantum memory - in finite temperature within the weak coupling Markovian limit. It is shown that, below a critical temperature, certain topological qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-22 R. Alicki , M. Horodecki , P. Horodecki , R. Horodecki

Slow variations (quenches) of the magnetic field across the paramagnetic-ferromagnetic phase transition of spin systems produce heat. In systems with short-range interactions the heat exhibits universal power-law scaling as a function of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-12-19 Nicolo Defenu , Tilman Enss , Michael Kastner , Giovanna Morigi

We determine the conditions under which the presence of long-range interactions reduce the energy losses due to defect generation during non-adiabatic evolution, crucial for enhancing the power to efficiency ratio of quantum thermal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-07 Andrea Solfanelli , Nicolò Defenu

The crossing of a continuous phase transition gives rise to the formation of topological defects described by the Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM) in the limit of slow quenches. The KZM predicts a universal power-law scaling of the defect…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-04 Hua-Bi Zeng , Chuan-Yin Xia , Adolfo del Campo

We analyze scaling behaviors of simulated annealing carried out on various classical systems with topological order, obtained as appropriate limits of the toric code in two and three dimensions. We first consider the three-dimensional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-08 Na Xu , Claudio Castelnovo , Roger G. Melko , Claudio Chamon , Anders W. Sandvik

Kibble-Zurek mechanism relates the domain of non-equilibrium dynamics with the critical properties at equilibrium. It establishes a power law connection between non-equilibrium defects quenched through a continuous phase transition and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Amit Jamadagni , Javad Kazemi , Arpan Bhattacharyya

Characterizing the work statistics of driven complex quantum systems is generally challenging because of the exponential growth with the system size of the number of transitions involved between different energy levels. We consider the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-07 Aurélia Chenu , Javier Molina-Vilaplana , Adolfo del Campo

The competition between evolution time, interaction strength, and temperature challenges our understanding of many-body quantum systems out-of-equilibrium. Here we consider a benchmark system, the Hubbard dimer, which allows us to explore…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Marcela Herrera , Krissia Zawadzki , Irene D'Amico

We consider the Rabi Hamiltonian which exhibits a quantum phase transition (QPT) despite consisting only of a single-mode cavity field and a two-level atom. We prove QPT by deriving an exact solution in the limit where the atomic transition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-30 Myung-Joong Hwang , Ricardo Puebla , Martin B. Plenio

The Kibble-Zurek (KZ) hypothesis identifies the relevant time scales in out-of-equilibrium dynamics of critical systems employing concepts valid at equilibrium: It predicts the scaling of the defect formation immediately after quenches…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 Pietro Silvi , Giovanna Morigi , Tommaso Calarco , Simone Montangero

We consider the nonequilibrium work distribution of a quantum oscillator with modulated angular frequency. We examine the discrete-to-continuous transition of the distribution as the temperature and the degree of nonadiabaticity of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-04-28 Sebastian Deffner , Obinna Abah , Eric Lutz

We study the entanglement and work statistics in a driven two-qubit system. The regulation of periodic driving has much more versatility and universality in contrast to reservoir engineering in static systems. We found the quasi-steady…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 He Wang , Jin Wang

In this paper we investigate the universality and scaling properties of the well-known quantities in classical statistical mechanics near the quantum phase transition point. We show that transverse susceptibility and derivatives of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-17 R. Jafari

Quantum circuit dynamics with local projective measurements can realize a rich spectrum of entangled states of quantum matter. Motivated by the physics of the Kitaev quantum spin liquid [1], we study quantum circuit dynamics in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-08 Ali Lavasani , Zhu-Xi Luo , Sagar Vijay

We study the scaling behavior of the entanglement entropy of two dimensional conformal quantum critical systems, i.e. systems with scale invariant wave functions. They include two-dimensional generalized quantum dimer models on bipartite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-03-28 Benjamin Hsu , Michael Mulligan , Eduardo Fradkin , Eun-Ah Kim

We investigate an extension of the quantum Ising model in one spatial dimension including long-range $1 / r^{\alpha}$ interactions in its statics and dynamics with possible applications from heteronuclear polar molecules in optical lattices…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-09-15 Daniel Jaschke , Kenji Maeda , Joseph D. Whalen , Michael L. Wall , Lincoln D. Carr