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Driving of an open quantum system at finite temperature across first- and second-order quantum phase transitions
An open fully connected system of qubits at nonzero temperature is driven within a finite time interval along various paths in the space of its control parameters. The driving leads across finite-size precursors of the first- and second-order quantum phase transition from factorized to entangled ground-state phases, aiming at the …