{"paper":{"title":"Fast preparation of critical ground states using superluminal fronts","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"cond-mat.quant-gas","authors_text":"Kartiek Agarwal, R. N. Bhatt, S. L. Sondhi","submitted_at":"2017-10-26T18:00:03Z","abstract_excerpt":"We propose a spatio-temporal quench protocol that allows for the fast preparation of ground states of gapless models with Lorentz invariance. Assuming the system initially resides in the ground state of a corresponding massive model, we show that a superluminally-moving `front' that $\\textit{locally}$ quenches the mass, leaves behind it (in space) a state $\\textit{arbitrarily close}$ to the ground state of the gapless model. Importantly, our protocol takes time $\\mathcal{O} \\left( L \\right)$ to produce the ground state of a system of size $\\sim L^d$ ($d$ spatial dimensions), while a fully adia"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1710.09840","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}