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  • Anti-Kibble-Zurek Behavior ...
    Dutta, Anirban; Rahmani, Armin; Del Campo, Adolfo

    Physical review letters, 2016-Aug-19, Volume: 117, Issue: 8
    Journal Article

    We show that a thermally isolated system driven across a quantum phase transition by a noisy control field exhibits anti-Kibble-Zurek behavior, whereby slower driving results in higher excitations. We characterize the density of excitations as a function of the ramping rate and the noise strength. The optimal driving time to minimize excitations is shown to scale as a universal power law of the noise strength. Our findings reveal the limitations of adiabatic protocols such as quantum annealing and demonstrate the universality of the optimal ramping rate.