Universality of fast quenches from the conformal perturbation theory

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2018)112zbMATH Open1384.81098arXiv1709.08654MaRDI QIDQ1745524FDOQ1745524

Anatoly Dymarsky, Michael Smolkin

Publication date: 17 April 2018

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

Abstract: We consider global quantum quenches, a protocol when a continuous field theoretic system in the ground state is driven by a homogeneous time-dependent external interaction. When the typical inverse time scale of the interaction is much larger than all relevant scales except for the UV-cutoff the system's response exhibits universal scaling behavior. We provide both qualitative and quantitative explanations of this universality and argue that physics of the response during and shortly after the quench is governed by the conformal perturbation theory around the UV fixed point. We proceed to calculate the response of one and two-point correlation functions confirming and generalizing universal scalings found previously. Finally, we discuss late time behavior after the quench and argue that all local quantities will equilibrate to their thermal values specified by an excess energy acquired by the system during the quench.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.08654

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryfield theories in higher dimensions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

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