Nonergodic dynamics in disorder-free potentials

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2021.168540MaRDI QIDQ2063570zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ruixiao Yao, Titas Chanda, Jakub Zakrzewski

Publication date 11 January 2022

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.11061

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20)

Abstract: We review the dynamics of interacting particles in disorder-free potentials concentrating on a combination of a harmonic binding with a constant tilt. We show that a simple picture of an effective local tilt describes a variety of cases. Our examples include spinless fermions (as modeled by Heisenberg spin chain in a magnetic field), spinful fermions as well as bosons that enjoy a larger local on-site Hilbert space. We also discuss the domain-wall dynamics that reveals nonergodic features even for a relatively weak tilt as suggested by Doggen et. al. [arXiv:2012.13722]. By adding a harmonic potential on top of the static field we confirm that the surprizing regular dynamics is not entirely due to Hilbert space shuttering. It seems better explained by the inhibited transport within the domains of identically oriented spins. Once the spin-1/2 restrictions are lifted as, e.g., for bosons, the dynamics involve stronger entanglement generation. Again for domain wall melting, the effect of the harmonic potential is shown to lead mainly to an effective local tilt.

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