Posted by 
By Amit Dutta, Gabriel Aeppli, Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Uma Divakaran, Thomas F. Rosenbaum, Diptiman Sen
The transverse box Ising and XY versions (the easiest quantum spin versions) give you the setting up precept for the wealthy number of interconnected matters that are coated during this booklet. From a prevalent advent to in-depth discussions of the subtleties of the transverse box Ising and similar versions, it comprises the necessities of quantum dynamics and quantum details. quite a lot of proper subject matters has additionally been supplied: quantum section transitions, a variety of measures of quantum details, the consequences of affliction and frustration, quenching dynamics and the Kibble-Zurek scaling relation, the Kitaev version, topological stages of quantum structures, and bosonisation. additionally, it additionally discusses the experimental stories of transverse box versions (including the 1st experimental realisation of quantum annealing) and the hot realisation of the transverse box Ising version utilizing tunable Josephson junctions. extra, it issues to the stumbling blocks nonetheless closing to increase a profitable quantum computing device.
Read or Download Quantum Phase Transitions in Transverse Field Spin Models: From Statistical Physics to Quantum Information PDF
Best quantum theory books
Professor E. U. Condon's the speculation of Atomic Spectra used to be the 1st complete e-book at the electron constitution of atoms, and has turn into a world-renowned vintage. initially released in 1980, Atomic constitution used to be the overdue Professor Condon's ultimate contribution to the literature of this box. accomplished via his colleague and previous pupil Halis Odabşi, this ebook was once one of many first built-in money owed of the topic to incorporate such advancements as team concept techniques and Racah equipment.
This is often the 3rd, considerably extended variation of the great textbook released in 1990 at the thought and functions of direction integrals. it's the first publication to explicitly resolve course integrals of a wide selection of nontrivial quantum-mechanical structures, particularly the hydrogen atom. The options became attainable by means of significant advances.
Quantum Field Theory I: Foundations and Abelian and Non-Abelian Gauge Theories
This textbook covers a vast spectrum of advancements in QFT, emphasizing these facets which are now good consolidated and for which passable theoretical descriptions were supplied. The e-book is exclusive in that it bargains a brand new method of the topic and explores many issues basically touched upon, if lined in any respect, in general reference works.
Extra info for Quantum Phase Transitions in Transverse Field Spin Models: From Statistical Physics to Quantum Information
Sample text
A discussion of experimental realizations of Ising systems in transverse fields is made in Chapter 14. As mentioned already, the model was introduced to study the orderdisorder transition in KDP type ferroelectrics which is discussed at some length in the first section. , LiTbF4 , which was previously employed as an example of an ideal Ising dipolar coupled ferromagnet is presented in the next section. The systems for which the most data are available is LiHoF4 for which the ground state is a non-Kramers doublet with strong anisotropy effectively producing an Ising spin along the tetragonal c-axis.
5. 3, the material for the study is CoNb2 O6 . 2. 3 in fact corroborates this finding. Finally, six appendices are strategically incorporated which are complementary to the material presented in the body of the book. In Appendix A, we illustrate how a 12 Quantum phase transitions in transverse field spin models Hamiltonian (which is a variant of the transverse Ising spin chain Hamiltonian) with a given matrix product ground state can be constructed. 6. The intention here is to enable the reader to get a generic idea of recent developments in these low-dimensional models.
1 (a) describes the situation where the order exists only at T = 0, for example, the one-dimensional transverse Ising model (discussed later) with the critical temperature Tc = 0 at g = gc . In this case, there will be no true phase transition in any real experiment carried out at finite temperatures. However, the finite temperature region in the same figure is characterized by three different regions, separated by crossovers, depending on whether the behavior is dominated by thermal or quantum fluctuations.