9 research outputs found
Dynamics in quantum Ising chain driven by inhomogeneous transverse magnetization
We study the dynamics caused by transport of transverse magnetization in one
dimensional transverse Ising chain at zero temperature. We observe that a class
of initial states having product structure in fermionic momentum-space and
satisfying certain criteria, produce spatial variation in transverse
magnetization. Starting from such a state, we obtain the transverse
magnetization analytically and then observe its dynamics in presence of a
homogeneous constant field . In contradiction with general expectation,
whatever be the strength of the field, the magnetization of the system does not
become homogeneous even after infinite time. At each site, the dynamics is
associated with oscillations having two different timescales. The envelope of
the larger timescale oscillation decays algebraically with an exponent which is
invariant for all such special initial states. The frequency of this
oscillation varies differently with external field in ordered and disordered
phases. The local magnetization after infinite time also characterizes the
quantum phase transition.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figure
Transverse Ising Chain under Periodic Instantaneous Quenches: Dynamical Many-Body Freezing and Emergence of Solitary Oscillation
We study the real-time dynamics of a quantum Ising chain driven periodically
by instantaneous quenches of the transverse field (the transverse field varying
as rectangular wave symmetric about zero). Two interesting phenomena are
reported and analyzed: (1) We observe dynamical many-body freezing or DMF
(Phys. Rev. B, vol. 82, 172402, 2010), i.e. strongly non-monotonic freezing of
the response (transverse magnetization) with respect to the driving parameters
(pulse width and height) resulting from equivocal freezing behavior of all the
many-body modes. The freezing occurs due to coherent suppression of dynamics of
the many-body modes. For certain combination of the pulse height and period,
maximal freezing (freezing peaks) are observed. For those parameter values, a
massive collapse of the entire Floquet spectrum occurs. (2) Secondly, we
observe emergence of a distinct solitary oscillation with a single frequency,
which can be much lower than the driving frequency. This slow oscillation,
involving many high-energy modes, dominates the response remarkably in the
limit of long observation time. We identify this slow oscillation as the unique
survivor of destructive quantum interference between the many-body modes. The
oscillation is found to decay algebraically with time to a constant value. All
the key features are demonstrated analytically with numerical evaluations for
specific results.Comment: Published version (with minor changes and typo corrections
Optimizing the location of the colony of foragers with Collective Learning
Animal groups collaborate with one another throughout their lives to better
comprehend their surroundings. Here, we try to model, using continuous random
walks, how the entire process of birth, reproduction, and death might impact
the searching process. We attempt to simulate an ecosystem where the
post-reproductive foragers leave their colonies to discover where the targets
are while others stay and breed at the base. Actually, a group of foragers
searches for a location from where they access the targets for food supply.
Particularly, we have explored a hypothetical situation in which the relocation
to the new position depends on the agreement level of the species as well as an
additional waiting time due to this agreement level. In this backdrop, detailed
numerical results reveal that searching for an optimal position at an optimal
mean time can be captured for a suitable range of the agreement level. We have
also shown, for a given agreement level, the optimal mean time linearly
increases with the Death-to-Birth ratio.Comment: 9 pages, 6 figure
Crossover of cation partitioning in olivines: a combination of ab initio and Monte Carlo study
We report studies based on a combination of ab initio electronic structure and Monte Carlo (MC) technique on the problem of cation partitioning among inequivalent octahedral sites, M1 and M2 in mixed olivines containing Mg<SUP>2+</SUP> and Fe<SUP>2+</SUP> ions. Our MC scheme uses interactions derived out of ab initio, density functional calculations carried out on measured crystal structure data. Our results show that there is no reversal of the preference of Fe for M1 over M2 as a function of temperature. Our findings do not agree with the experimental findings of Redfern et al. (Phys Chem Miner 27:630-637, 2000), but are in agreement with those of Heinemann et al. (Eur J Mineral 18:673-689, 2006) and Morozov et al. (Eur J Mineral 17:495-500, 2005)
Response of a three-species cyclic ecosystem to a short-lived elevation of death rate
Abstract A balanced ecosystem with coexisting constituent species is often perturbed by different natural events that persist only for a finite duration of time. What becomes important is whether, in the aftermath, the ecosystem recovers its balance or not. Here we study the fate of an ecosystem by monitoring the dynamics of a particular species that encounters a sudden increase in death rate. For exploration of the fate of the species, we use Monte-Carlo simulation on a three-species cyclic rock-paper-scissor model. The density of the affected (by perturbation) species is found to drop exponentially immediately after the pulse is applied. In spite of showing this exponential decay as a short-time behavior, there exists a region in parameter space where this species surprisingly remains as a single survivor, wiping out the other two which had not been directly affected by the perturbation. Numerical simulations using stochastic differential equations of the species give consistency to our results