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A Memory of Majorana Modes through Quantum Quench

We study the sudden quench of a one-dimensional p-wave superconductor through its topological signature in the entanglement spectrum. We show that the long-time evolution of the system and its topological characterization depend on a pseudomagnetic field R(eff)(k). Furthermore, R(eff)(k) connects bo...

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Autores principales: Chung, Ming-Chiang, Jhu, Yi-Hao, Chen, Pochung, Mou, Chung-Yu, Wan, Xin
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4937421/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27389657
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep29172
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author Chung, Ming-Chiang
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description We study the sudden quench of a one-dimensional p-wave superconductor through its topological signature in the entanglement spectrum. We show that the long-time evolution of the system and its topological characterization depend on a pseudomagnetic field R(eff)(k). Furthermore, R(eff)(k) connects both the initial and the final Hamiltonians, hence exhibiting a memory effect. In particular, we explore the robustness of the Majorana zero-mode and identify the parameter space in which the Majorana zero-mode can revive in the infinite-time limit.
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spelling pubmed-49374212016-07-13 A Memory of Majorana Modes through Quantum Quench Chung, Ming-Chiang Jhu, Yi-Hao Chen, Pochung Mou, Chung-Yu Wan, Xin Sci Rep Article We study the sudden quench of a one-dimensional p-wave superconductor through its topological signature in the entanglement spectrum. We show that the long-time evolution of the system and its topological characterization depend on a pseudomagnetic field R(eff)(k). Furthermore, R(eff)(k) connects both the initial and the final Hamiltonians, hence exhibiting a memory effect. In particular, we explore the robustness of the Majorana zero-mode and identify the parameter space in which the Majorana zero-mode can revive in the infinite-time limit. Nature Publishing Group 2016-07-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4937421/ /pubmed/27389657 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep29172 Text en Copyright © 2016, Macmillan Publishers Limited http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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