Conformal Floquet dynamics with a continuous drive protocol

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2021)172MaRDI QIDQ2048027zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Diptarka Das, Roopayan Ghosh, Krishnendu Sengupta

Publication date 4 August 2021

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04140

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theorylattice integrable models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

Abstract: We study the properties {of a conformal field theory} (CFT) driven periodically with a continuous protocol characterized by a frequency $omeg{a}_D$. Such a drive, in contrast to its discrete counterparts (such as square pulses or periodic kicks), does not admit exact analytical solution for the evolution operator $U$. In this work, we develop a Floquet perturbation theory which provides an analytic, albeit perturbative, result for $U$ that matches exact numerics in the large drive amplitude limit. We find that the drive yields the well-known heating (hyperbolic) and non-heating (elliptic) phases separated by transition lines (parabolic phase boundary). Using this and starting from a primary state of the CFT, we compute the return probability ($P_n$), equal ($C_n$) and unequal ($G_n$) time two-point primary correlators, energy density($E_n$), and the $m^{mth}$ Renyi entropy ($S_n^m$) after $n$ drive cycles. Our results show that below a crossover stroboscopic time scale $n_c$, $P_n$, $E_n$ and $G_n$ exhibits universal power law behavior as the transition is approached either from the heating or the non-heating phase; this crossover scale diverges at the transition. We also study the emergent spatial structure of $C_n$, $G_n$ and $E_n$ for the continuous protocol and find emergence of spatial divergences of $C_n$ and $G_n$ in both the heating and non-heating phases. We express our results for $S_n^m$ and $C_n$ in terms of conformal blocks and provide analytic expressions for these quantities in several limiting cases. Finally we relate our results to those obtained from exact numerics of a driven lattice model.

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