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Probing the role of long-range interactions in the dynamics of a long-range Kitaev Chain

arXiv:1705.03770 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.96.125113

Abstract

We study the role of long-range interactions on the non-equilibrium dynamics considering a long-range Kitaev chain in which superconducting term decays with distance between two sites in a power-law fashion characterised by an exponent . We show that the Kibble-Zurek scaling exponent, dictating the power-law decay of the defect density in the final state reached following a slow quenching of the chemical potential () across a quantum critical point, depends non-trivially on the exponent as long as ; on the other hand, for , one finds that the exponent saturates to the corresponding well-know value of expected for the short-range model. Furthermore, studying the dynamical quantum phase transitions manifested in the non-analyticities in the rate function of the return possibility () in subsequent temporal evolution following a sudden change in , we show the existence of a new region; in this region, we find three instants of cusp singularities in associated with a single sector of Fisher zeros. Notably, the width of this region shrinks as increases and vanishes in the limit .

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