Topology induced anomalous defect production by crossing a quantum critical point

Details Topology induced anomalous defect production by crossing a quantum critical point Topology induced anomalous defect production by crossing a quantum critical point

2008-11-24

arxiv.org/abs/0811.3843v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 135702 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

Phys. Rev. Lett. (to be published)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.135702

We study the influence of topology on the quench dynamics of a system driven across a quantum critical point. We show how the appearance of certain edge states, which fully characterise the topology of the system, dramatically modifies the process of defect production during the crossing of the critical point. Interestingly enough, the density of defects is no longer described by the Kibble-Zurek scaling, but determined instead by the non-universal topological features of the system. Edge states are shown to be robust against defect production, which highlights their topological nature.

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