Dynamics of a quantum phase transition with decoherence: the quantum Ising chain in a static spin environment

Details Dynamics of a quantum phase transition with decoherence: the quantum Ising chain in a static spin environment Dynamics of a quantum phase transition with decoherence: the quantum Ising chain in a static spin environment

2008-12-08

arxiv.org/abs/0812.1455v1

Phys. Rev. B 79, 094421 (2009)

Physics

Quantum Physics

9 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.79.094421

We consider a linear quench from the paramagnetic to ferromagnetic phase in the quantum Ising chain interacting with a static spin environment. Both decoherence from the environment and non-adiabaticity of the evolution near a critical point excite the system from the final ferromagnetic ground state. For weak decoherence and relatively fast quenches the excitation energy, proportional to the number of kinks in the final state, decays like an inverse square root of a quench time, but slow transitions or strong decoherence make it decay in a much slower logarithmic way. We also find that fidelity between the final ferromagnetic ground state and a final state after a quench decays exponentially with a size of a chain, with a decay rate proportional to average density of excited kinks, and a proportionality factor evolving from 1.3 for weak decoherence and fast quenches to approximately 1 for slow transitions or strong decoherence. Simultaneously, correlations between kinks randomly distributed along the chain evolve from a near-crystalline anti-bunching to a Poissonian distribution of kinks in a number of isolated Anderson localization centers randomly scattered along the chain.

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