Dynamics of a quantum phase transition: Exact solution of the quantum ising model

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Dziarmaga, J
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[1] Jagiellonian Univ, Inst Phys, PL-30059 Krakow, Poland
[2] Jagiellonian Univ, Ctr Complex Syst, PL-30059 Krakow, Poland
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.245701
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O4 [物理学];
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The Quantum Ising model is an exactly solvable model of quantum phase transition. This Letter gives an exact solution when the system is driven through the critical point at a finite rate. The evolution goes through a series of Landau-Zener level anticrossings when pairs of quasiparticles with opposite pseudomomenta get excited with a probability depending on the transition rate. The average density of defects excited in this way scales like a square root of the transition rate. This scaling is the same as the scaling obtained when the standard Kibble-Zurek mechanism of thermodynamic second order phase transitions is applied to the quantum phase transition in the Ising model.
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