Bayat, A; Apollaro, TJG; Paganelli, S; De Chiara, G; Johannesson, H; Bose, S; Sodano, P; (2016) Nonequilibrium critical scaling in quantum thermodynamics. Physical Review B , 93 (20) , Article 201106(R). 10.1103/PhysRevB.93.201106.

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Abstract

The emerging field of quantum thermodynamics is contributing important results and insights into archetypal many-body problems, including quantum phase transitions. Still, the question whether out-of-equilibrium quantities, such as fluctuations of work, exhibit critical scaling after a sudden quench in a closed system has remained elusive. Here, we take a novel approach to the problem by studying a quench across an impurity quantum critical point. By performing density matrix renormalization group computations on the two-impurity Kondo model, we are able to establish that the irreversible work produced in a quench exhibits finite-size scaling at quantum criticality. This scaling faithfully predicts the equilibrium critical exponents for the crossover length and the order parameter of the model, and, moreover, implies an exponent for the rescaled irreversible work. By connecting the irreversible work to the two-impurity spin correlation function, our findings can be tested experimentally.

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