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arXiv:0906.1161 · Physical Review E

Adiabatic dynamics in passage across quantum critical lines and gapless phases

Debanjan Chowdhury, Uma Divakaran, Amit Dutta

Published Jan 4, 2010• 15 citations
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Abstract

It is well known that the dynamics of a quantum system is always nonadiabatic in passage through a quantum critical point and the defect density in the final state following a quench shows a power-law scaling with the rate of quenching. However, we propose here a possible situation where the dynamics of a quantum system in passage across quantum critical regions is adiabatic and the defect density decays exponentially. This is achieved by incorporating additional interactions which lead to quantum critical behavior and gapless phases but do not participate in the time evolution of the system. To illustrate the general argument, we study the defect generation in the quantum critical dynamics of a spin-1/2 anisotropic quantum XY spin chain with three spin interactions and a linearly driven staggered magnetic field.

DOI
10.1103/physreve.81.012101

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It is well known that the dynamics of a quantum system is always nonadiabatic in passage through a quantum critical point and the defect density in the final state following a quench shows a power-law scaling with the rate of quenching. However, we propose here a possible situation where the dynamics of a quantum system in passage across quantum critical regions is adiabatic and the defect density decays exponentially. This is achieved by incorporating additional interactions which lead to quantum critical behavior and gapless phases but do not participate in the time evolution of the system. To illustrate the general argument, we study the defect generation in the quantum critical dynamics of a spin-1/2 anisotropic quantum XY spin chain with three spin interactions and a linearly driven staggered magnetic field.
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We study the adiabatic quantum dynamics of an anisotropic spin-1 XY chain across a second order quantum phase transition. The system is driven out of equilibrium by performing a quench on the uniaxial single-spin anisotropy, that is supposed to vary linearly in time. We show that, for sufficiently large system sizes, the excess energy after the quench admits a non trivial scaling behavior that is not predictable by standard Kibble-Zurek arguments for isolated critical points or extended critical regions. This emerges from a competing effect of many accessible low-lying excited states, inside the whole continuous line of critical points.
We use a quenching scheme to study the dynamics of a one-dimensional anisotropic XYXYXY spin-1/2 chain in the presence of a transverse field which alternates between the values $h+\ensuremath{\delta}$ and $h\ensuremath{-}\ensuremath{\delta}$ from site to site. In this quenching scheme, the parameter denoting the anisotropy of interaction $(\ensuremath{\gamma})$ is linearly quenched from $\ensuremath{-}\ensuremath{\infty}$ to $+\ensuremath{\infty}$ as $\ensuremath{\gamma}=t/\ensuremath{\tau}$, keeping the total strength of interaction JJJ fixed. The system traverses through a gapless phase when $\ensuremath{\gamma}$ is quenched along the critical surface ${h}^{2}={\ensuremath{\delta}}^{2}+{J}^{2}$ in the parameter space spanned by hhh, $\ensuremath{\delta}$, and $\ensuremath{\gamma}$. By mapping to an equivalent two-level Landau-Zener problem, we show that the defect density in the final state scales as $1/{\ensuremath{\tau}}^{1/3}$, a behavior that has not been observed in previous studies of quenching through a gapless phase. We also generalize the model incorporating additional alternations in the anisotropy or in the strength of the interaction and derive an identical result under a similar quenching. Based on the above results, we propose a general scaling of the defect density with the quenching rate $\ensuremath{\tau}$ for quenching along a gapless critical line.
We study an integrable spin chain with three spin interactions and the staggered field $(\ensuremath{\lambda})$ while the latter is quenched either slowly [in a linear fashion in time (t)(t)(t) as $t/\ensuremath{\tau}$, where ttt goes from a large negative value to a large positive value and $\ensuremath{\tau}$ is the inverse rate of quenching] or suddenly. In the process, the system crosses quantum critical points and gapless phases. We address the question whether there exist nonanalyticities [known as dynamical phase transitions (DPTs)] in the subsequent real-time evolution of the state (reached following the quench) governed by the final time-independent Hamiltonian. In the case of sufficiently slow quenching (when $\ensuremath{\tau}$ exceeds a critical value ${\ensuremath{\tau}}_{1})$, we show that DPTs, of the form similar to those occurring for quenching across an isolated critical point, can occur even when the system is slowly driven across more than one critical point and gapless phases. More interestingly, in the anisotropic situation we show that DPTs can completely disappear for some values of the anisotropy term $(\ensuremath{\gamma})$ and $\ensuremath{\tau}$, thereby establishing the existence of boundaries in the $(\ensuremath{\gamma}\text{\ensuremath{-}}\ensuremath{\tau})$ plane between the DPT and no-DPT regions in both isotropic and anisotropic cases. Our study therefore leads to a unique situation when DPTs may not occur even when an integrable model is slowly ramped across a QCP. On the other hand, considering sudden quenches from an initial value ${\ensuremath{\lambda}}_{i}$ to a final value ${\ensuremath{\lambda}}_{f}$, we show that the condition for the presence of DPTs is governed by relations involving ${\ensuremath{\lambda}}_{i},{\ensuremath{\lambda}}_{f}$, and $\ensuremath{\gamma}$, and the spin chain must be swept across $\ensuremath{\lambda}=0$ for DPTs to occur.
We analyze mechanisms for universal out-of-equilibrium dynamics near criticality by exploring the effect of randomized quantum resetting (QR) under a finite-time quench across a quantum phase transition. Using the transverse-field Ising chain as a generic model and exploiting its exact solution, QR is found to cause a crossover of the scaling of the topological defect density with the time scale τττ of the quench, from Kibble-Zurek to anti-Kibble-Zurek scaling as τττ increases. This reflects a competition between non-adiabatic quench-driven excitations and QR, giving rise to local minima of the defect densities at optimal annealing times. These times and the corresponding local minima are shown to scale as universal power laws with the rate of QR. Additional results for the scaling of the mean excess energy suggest that a system driven across a quantum critical point exhibits the same scaling behavior under a linear quench with QR as with uncorrelated noise.
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