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Title: Space and time renormalization in phase transition dynamics

Journal Article · · Physical Review B
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4]
  1. Instytut Fizyki Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego, Krakow (Poland); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  2. Instytut Fizyki Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego, Krakow (Poland)
  3. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Univ. of Silesia, Katowice (Poland)
  4. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Here, when a system is driven across a quantum critical point at a constant rate, its evolution must become nonadiabatic as the relaxation time τ diverges at the critical point. According to the Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM), the emerging post-transition excited state is characterized by a finite correlation length ξˆ set at the time tˆ=τˆ when the critical slowing down makes it impossible for the system to relax to the equilibrium defined by changing parameters. This observation naturally suggests a dynamical scaling similar to renormalization familiar from the equilibrium critical phenomena. We provide evidence for such KZM-inspired spatiotemporal scaling by investigating an exact solution of the transverse field quantum Ising chain in the thermodynamic limit.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
DEC-2013/09/B/ST3/01603; AC52-06NA25396
OSTI ID:
1255132
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1238393
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-15-28631; PRBMDO
Journal Information:
Physical Review B, Vol. 93, Issue 7; ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 56 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

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