Equilibration and GGE in interacting-to-free quantum quenches in dimensions d> 1

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/49/9/095002MaRDI QIDQ2994653zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. Sotiriadis, Gabriele Martelloni

Publication date 3 August 2016

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.08150

zbMATH Keywords

equilibrationGaussian statesgeneralised Gibbs ensemblehigher dimensionsquantum quenches

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical thermodynamics (82B30)

Abstract: Ground states of interacting QFTs are non-gaussian states, i.e. their connected n-point correlation functions do not vanish for n>2, in contrast to the free QFT case. We show that when the ground state of an interacting QFT evolves under a free massive QFT for a long time (a scenario that can be realised by a Quantum Quench), the connected correlation functions decay and all local physical observables equilibrate to values that are given by a gaussian density matrix that keeps memory only of the two-point initial correlation function. The argument hinges upon the fundamental physical principle of cluster decomposition, which is valid for the ground state of a general QFT. An analogous result was already known to be valid in the case of d=1 spatial dimensions, where it is a special case of the so-called Generalised Gibbs Ensemble (GGE) hypothesis, and we now generalise it to higher dimensions. Moreover in the case of massless free evolution, despite the fact that the evolution may not lead to equilibration but unbounded increase of correlations with time instead, the GGE gives correctly the leading order asymptotic behaviour of correlation functions in the thermodynamic and large time limit. The demonstration is performed in the context of bosonic relativistic QFT, but the arguments apply more generally.

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