Breakdown of the adiabatic limit in low-dimensional gapless systems
By A. Polkovnikov, V. Gritsev. 2007
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When a thermodynamic system is changed sufficiently slowly, entropy is generally conserved and the process is adiabatic, and therefore reversible. However, this adiabaticity does not seem to hold for low-dimensional systems with a high-density of low-energy states.
Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
- Darrick E. Chang
- Alessandro Silva
- M. Vengalattore
- K. Sengupta
- V. Gritsev
- A. Polkovnikov
- E. Demler
- V. Vuleti'c
In Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
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- Dynamics and statistical mechanics of ultra-cold Bose gases using c-field techniques (2008, methodology): “is not easy to assess the error associated with this approximation, although Polkovnikov has derived the TWA using path integral methods which also yields an expression for the next order corrections [143,144]. In the context of quantum optical systems comparisons have been made between the TWA and ”
- Phase space representation of quantum dynamics (2009, methodology): “(Polkovnikov and Gritsev, 2008)): W (φ0q , n 0 q) = ∏ q exp [ − |φ0q |2 2σ2qrq − 2σ2q rq |n0q|2 ] , (132) where rq = coth(ωq/(2T )).”
- Colloquium: Nonequilibrium dynamics of closed interacting quantum systems (2010, background): “(Polkovnikov and Gritsev, 2008) together with a third regime where adiabaticity is violated in the thermodynamic limit and Q or nex become proportional to a power of the system size or some other large length scale associated with some irrelevant operator.”