Equilibration in long-range quantum spin systems from a BBGKY perspective

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2012/02/P02005MaRDI QIDQ3301333zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Rytis Paškauskas, Michael Kastner

Publication date 11 August 2020

Published in Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2492

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations of time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C03) Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10) Dynamic lattice systems (kinetic Ising, etc.) and systems on graphs in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C20) Exactly solvable dynamic models in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C23)

Abstract: The time evolution of $ell$-spin reduced density operators is studied for a class of Heisenberg-type quantum spin models with long-range interactions. In the framework of the quantum Bogoliubov-Born-Green-Kirkwood-Yvon (BBGKY) hierarchy, we introduce an unconventional representation, different from the usual cluster expansion, which casts the hierarchy into the form of a second-order recursion. This structure suggests a scaling of the expansion coefficients and the corresponding time scales in powers of $N^{1/2}$ with the system size $N$, implying a separation of time scales in the large system limit. For special parameter values and initial conditions, we can show analytically that closing the BBGKY hierarchy by neglecting $ell$-spin correlations does never lead to equilibration, but gives rise to quasi-periodic time evolution with at most $ell/2$ independent frequencies. Moreover, for the same special parameter values and in the large-$N$ limit, we solve the complete recursion relation (the full BBGKY hierarchy), observing a superexponential decay to equilibrium in rescaled time $au=t{N}^{-1/2}$.

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