Thermalization dynamics close to a quantum phase transition

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 24, 2009, Pages

  Patanè, Dario ^a,b   Silva, Alessandro ^c   Sols, Fernando ^b   Amico, Luigi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-THERMAL; BATH TEMPERATURES; CRITICAL EXPONENT; DISSIPATIVE DYNAMICS; GLAUBER DYNAMICS; LENGTH SCALE; OUT-OF-EQUILIBRIUM DYNAMICS; QUANTUM CRITICAL; QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITIONS; SPIN-SPIN CORRELATION; SUDDEN CHANGE; THERMAL PHASE TRANSITION; THERMALIZATION; TRANSIENT DYNAMICS; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC FIELD; X-Y MODEL;

DYNAMICS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; SPIN DYNAMICS;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 67549112072     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.245701     Document Type: Article

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