Clinical value of the emergency department in screening and diagnosis of COVID-19 in China

Abstract

Studying the implications and characterizations of the excited state quantum phase transitions (ESQPTs) would enable us to understand various phenomena observed in quantum many body systems. In this work, we delve into the affects and characterizations of the ESQPTs in the anharmonic Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick (LMG) model by means of the entropy of the quantum work distribution. The entropy of the work distribution measures the complexity of the work distribution and behaves as a valuable tool for analyzing nonequilibrium work statistics. We show that the entropy of the work distribution captures salient signatures of the underlying ESQPTs in the model. In particular, a detailed analyses of the scaling behavior of the maximal entropy verifies that it acts as a witness of the ESQPTs. We further demonstrate that the entropy of the work distribution also reveals the features of the ESQPTs in the energy space and can be used to determine their critical energies. Our results provide further evidence of the usefulness of the entropy of the work distribution for investigating various phase transitions in quantum many body systems and open up a promising way for experimentally exploring the signatures of ESQPTs.

Immune dysfunction following COVID-19, especially in severe patients

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