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Title: Scaling properties of work fluctuations after quenches at quantum transitions

Abstract: We study the scaling properties of the statistics of the work done on a generic many-body system at a quantum phase transition of any order and type, arising from quenches of a driving control parameter. For this purpose we exploit a dynamic finite-size scaling framework. Namely, we put forward the existence of a nontrivial finite-size scaling limit for the work distribution, defined as the large-size limit when appropriate scaling variables are kept fixed. The corresponding scaling behaviors are thoroughly verified by means of analytical and numerical calculations in two paradigmatic many-body systems as the quantum Ising model and the Bose-Hubbard model.
Comments: 30 pages, 6 figures. Revised version
Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
Journal reference: J. Stat. Mech. (2019) 023104
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/ab00e2
Cite as: arXiv:1810.04614 [cond-mat.stat-mech]
  (or arXiv:1810.04614v2 [cond-mat.stat-mech] for this version)

Submission history

From: Davide Rossini [view email]
[v1] Wed, 10 Oct 2018 16:18:28 GMT (262kb,D)
[v2] Mon, 26 Nov 2018 11:35:16 GMT (263kb,D)

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