Excitation Gap of a Confined Chiral Mode Measures Critical Zero-Point Fluctuations

arXiv:2609.34416 · quant-ph · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures; Supplemental Material: 8 pages, 3 figures, 4 tables. Source code available at Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23005392

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

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Sources

• Quantum tricriticality of chiral-coherent phase in quantum Rabi triangle
• Frustrated Superradiant Phase Transition
• Quantum fluctuations and unusual critical exponents in a quantum Rabi Triangle
• Quantum Phase Transition and Universal Dynamics in the Rabi model
• Universal scaling and critical exponents of the anisotropic quantum Rabi model
• Quantum Phase Transition in the Finite Jaynes-Cummings Lattice Systems
• Anomalous criticality with bounded fluctuations and long-range frustration induced by broken time-reversal symmetry

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