Driving a Quantum Phase Transition at Arbitrary Rate: Exact solution of the Transverse-Field Ising model

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10478v1
• Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:03:37 GMT
• Title: Driving a Quantum Phase Transition at Arbitrary Rate: Exact solution of the Transverse-Field Ising model
• Authors: András Grabarits, Federico Balducci, Adolfo del Campo,
• Abstract summary: We study the crossing of the quantum phase transition in the transverse-field Ising model after the magnetic field at an arbitrary rate. We analyze the defect density, the complete kink number distribution, and its cumulants upon completion of a linearized quench.
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• Abstract: We study the crossing of the quantum phase transition in the transverse-field Ising model after modulating the magnetic field at an arbitrary rate, exploring the critical dynamics from the slow to the sudden quench regime. We do so by analyzing the defect density, the complete kink number distribution, and its cumulants upon completion of a linearized quench. Our analysis relies on the diagonalization of the model using the standard Jordan-Wigner and Fourier transformations, along with the exact solution of the time evolution in each mode in terms of parabolic cylinder functions. The free-fermion nature of the problem dictates that the kink number distribution is associated with independent and distinguishable Bernoulli variables, each with a success probability $p_k$. We employ a combination of convergent and asymptotic series expansions to characterize $p_k$ without restrictions on the driving rate. When the latter is approximated by the Landau-Zener formula, the kink density is described by the Kibble-Zurek mechanism, and higher-order cumulants follow a universal power-law behavior, as recently predicted theoretically and verified in the laboratory. By contrast, for moderate and sudden driving protocols, the cumulants exhibit a nonuniversal behavior that is not monotonic on the driving rate and changes qualitatively with the cumulant order. The kink number statistics remain sub-Poissonian for any driving rate, as revealed by an analysis of the cumulant rations that vary nonmonotonically from the sudden to the slow-driving regime. Thanks to the determination of $p_k$ for an arbitrary rate, our study provides a complete analytical understanding of kink number statistics from the slow driving regime to the sudden quench limit.

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