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NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
Volume 18, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/aa5079
Keywords
quantum phase transition; inhomogeneous Kibble-Zurek mechanism; adiabatic protocol; disordered spin chains; random Ising model
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- UMass Boston [P20150000029279]
- Narodowe Centrum Nauki (NCN, National Science Center) [2013/09/B/ST3/01603]
- Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Google
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We introduce an inhomogeneous protocol to drive a weakly disordered quantum spin chain quasi-adiabatically across a quantum phase transition and minimize the residual energy of the final state. The number of spins that simultaneously reach the critical point is controlled by the length scale in which the magnetic field is modulated, introducing an effective size that favors adiabatic dynamics. The dependence of the residual energy on this length scale and the velocity at which the magnetic field sweeps out the chain is shown to be nonmonotonic. We determine the conditions for an optimal suppression of the residual energy of the final state and show that inhomogeneous driving can outperform conventional adiabatic schemes based on homogeneous control fields by several orders of magnitude.
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