{ "id": "1208.5989", "version": "v2", "published": "2012-08-29T18:55:08.000Z", "updated": "2012-11-12T14:41:19.000Z", "title": "Criticality in transport through the quantum Ising chain", "authors": [ "Malte Vogl", "Gernot Schaller", "Tobias Brandes" ], "comment": "to appear in PRL", "journal": "Physical Review Letters 109, 240402 (2012)", "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.240402", "categories": [ "cond-mat.stat-mech", "quant-ph" ], "abstract": "We consider thermal transport between two reservoirs coupled by a quantum Ising chain as a model for non-equilibrium physics induced in quantum-critical many-body systems. By deriving rate equations based on exact expressions for the quasiparticle pairs generated during the transport, we observe signatures of the underlying quantum phase transition in the steady-state energy current already at finite reservoir temperatures.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2012-11-12T14:41:19.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "05.60.Gg", "03.65.Yz", "05.30.Rt", "64.70.Tg" ], "keywords": [ "quantum ising chain", "criticality", "finite reservoir temperatures", "steady-state energy current", "underlying quantum phase transition" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "publisher": "APS", "journal": "Physical Review Letters", "year": 2012, "month": "Dec", "volume": 109, "number": 24, "pages": 240402 }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2012PhRvL.109x0402V" } } }