Transport through a quantum critical system: A thermodynamically consistent approach

Currents through quantum systems may probe nonanalyticities in quantum-critical many-body ground states. For a large class of dissipative quantum critical systems we show that it is possible to obtain the reduced system dynamics in the vicinity of quantum critical points in a thermodynamically consi...

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Main Authors: C. W. Wächtler, G. Schaller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2020-05-01
Series:Physical Review Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.023178