Crossover of Scaling Behaviors of Work Cumulants in a Driven Gaussian Field Theory

arXiv:2609.36476 · cond-mat.stat-mech, quant-ph · Submitted 2026-09-29 · Read on arXiv

cond-mat.stat-mech, quant-ph

Submitted: 2026-09-29

Updated: 2026-09-29

Terminology

• Verification — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Initial Data — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Phase Transitions — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• Path integral approach to the calculation of the characteristic function of work
• A Field-Theoretic Framework for Work Statistics and Universal Scaling in Non-equilibrium Phase Transitions
• Classifying and measuring the geometry of the quantum ground state manifold

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