Quantum transitions driven by one-bond defects in quantum Ising rings

Massimo Campostrini, Andrea Pelissetto, and Ettore Vicari
Phys. Rev. E 91, 042123 – Published 20 April 2015

Abstract

We investigate quantum scaling phenomena driven by lower-dimensional defects in quantum Ising-like models. We consider quantum Ising rings in the presence of a bond defect. In the ordered phase, the system undergoes a quantum transition driven by the bond defect between a magnet phase, in which the gap decreases exponentially with increasing size, and a kink phase, in which the gap decreases instead with a power of the size. Close to the transition, the system shows a universal scaling behavior, which we characterize by computing, either analytically or numerically, scaling functions for the low-level energy differences and the two-point correlation function. We discuss the implications of these results for the nonequilibrium dynamics in the presence of a slowly varying parallel magnetic field h, when going across the first-order quantum transition at h=0.

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  • Received 22 January 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.91.042123

©2015 American Physical Society

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Massimo Campostrini1, Andrea Pelissetto2, and Ettore Vicari1

  • 1Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Pisa and INFN, Largo Pontecorvo 3, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
  • 2Dipartimento di Fisica di “Sapienza” Università di Roma and INFN, Sezione di Roma I, I-00185 Roma, Italy

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Vol. 91, Iss. 4 — April 2015

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