학술논문

Nonadiabatic Phase Transition with Broken Chiral Symmetry
Document Type
Working Paper
Source
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 070602 (2021)
Subject
Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Quantum Physics
Language
Abstract
We explore nonadiabatic quantum phase transitions in an Ising spin chain with a linearly time-dependent transverse field and two different spins per unit cell. Such a spin system passes through critical points with gapless excitations, which support nonadiabatic transitions. Nevertheless, we find that the excitations on one of the chain sub-lattices are suppressed in the nearly-adiabatic regime exponentially. Thus, we reveal a coherent mechanism to induce exponentially large density separation for different quasiparticles.
Comment: v2: published version. 5+5 pages, 3+1 figures