Non-analytic behavior of the Loschmidt echo in XXZ spin chains: exact results

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2018.06.015zbMATH Open1395.82135arXiv1803.04380OpenAlexW2789394151WikidataQ129621269 ScholiaQ129621269MaRDI QIDQ1672289FDOQ1672289

Authors: Lorenzo Piroli, Balázs Pozsgay, Eric Vernier 

Publication date: 7 September 2018

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We address the computation of the Loschmidt echo in interacting integrable spin chains after a quantum quench. We focus on the massless regime of the XXZ spin-1/2 chain and present exact results for the dynamical free energy (Loschmidt echo per site) for a special class of integrable initial states. For the first time we are able to observe and describe points of non-analyticities using exact methods, by following the Loschmidt echo up to large real times. The dynamical free energy is computed as the leading eigenvalue of an appropriate Quantum Transfer Matrix, and the non-analyticities arise from the level crossings of this matrix. Our exact results are expressed in terms of "excited-state" thermodynamic Bethe ansatz equations, whose solutions involve non-trivial Riemann surfaces. By evaluating our formulas, we provide explicit numerical results for the quench from the N'eel state, and we determine the first few non-analytic points.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04380

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exactly solvable models; Bethe ansatz (82B23) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30) 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) Harmonic functions on Riemann surfaces (30F15)

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