Breakdown of the adiabatic limit in low-dimensional gapless systems

Nature Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 477-481

  Polkovnikov, Anatoli ^a   Gritsev, Vladimir ^b  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC LIMIT; ADIABATIC PROCESS; ANALYTICAL CALCULATION; GENERIC SYSTEM; LOW DIMENSIONAL; NON-ADIABATIC; QUANTUM ADIABATIC THEOREM; THERMODYNAMIC LIMITS;

EID: 44849139524     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys963     Document Type: Article

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