Thursday, January 24, 2013

1301.5459 (Francisco de los Santos et al.)

Revival times at quantum phase transitions    [PDF]

Francisco de los Santos, Elvira Romera
The concept of quantum revivals is extended to many-body systems and the implications of traversing a quantum phase transition are explored. By analyzing two different models, the vibron model for the bending of polyatomic molecules and the Dicke model for a quantum radiation field interacting with a system of two-level atoms, we show evidence of revival behavior for wave packets centered around energy levels as low as the fundamental state. Away from criticality, revival times exhibit smooth, nonsingular behavior, and are proportional to the system size. Upon approaching a quantum critical point, they diverge as a power law and scale with the system size, although the scaling is no longer linear.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.5459

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