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Open system probes of renormalization group flow
Andrew Keefe, Brenden Bowen, Saptarshi Biswas, Albion Lawrence, Nishant Agarwal, Archana Kamal·August 13, 2026
Quantum PhysicsMesoscale Physicscond-mat.stat-mechhep-th
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Abstract
Open system probes can provide an efficient means to characterize quantum many-body systems by employing them as engineered environments. The key idea is to map long-range spatial correlations of the environment onto dynamical correlations in the evolution of a simple quantum probe. Using the example of a qubit coupled to a transverse-field Ising model, we show how the non-Markovian rate or spectral flow can be used to identify stable and unstable fixed points, infer scaling dimensions of relevant fields, and deduce the renormalization group flow induced by deformations around any fixed point.