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NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
Volume 12, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/12/5/055007
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- Polish Government [N202 175935, N202 174335]
- Marie Curie ATK project COCOS [MTKD-CT-2004-517186]
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We argue that, in a second-order quantum phase transition driven by an inhomogeneous quench, the density of quasi-particle excitations is suppressed when velocity at which a critical point propagates across a system falls below a threshold velocity equal to the Kibble-Zurek correlation length times the energy gap at freeze-out divided by (h) over bar. This general prediction is supported by an analytic solution in the quantum Ising chain. Our results suggest, in particular, that adiabatic quantum computers can be made more adiabatic when operated in an 'inhomogeneous' way.
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