Quantum disentangled liquids

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2014/10/P10010zbMATH Open1456.81068arXiv1307.2288OpenAlexW3104597548WikidataQ56698538 ScholiaQ56698538MaRDI QIDQ3301739FDOQ3301739

Authors: Tarun Grover, M. Fisher 

Publication date: 11 August 2020

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

Abstract: We propose and explore a new finite temperature phase of translationally invariant multi-component liquids which we call a "Quantum Disentangled Liquid" (QDL) phase. We contemplate the possibility that in fluids consisting of two (or more) species of indistinguishable quantum particles with a large mass ratio, the light particles might "localize" on the heavy particles. We give a precise, formal definition of this Quantum Disentangled Liquid phase in terms of the finite energy density many-particle wavefunctions. While the heavy particles are fully thermalized, for a typical fixed configuration of the heavy particles, the entanglement entropy of the light particles satisfies an area law; this implies that the light particles have not thermalized. Thus, in a QDL phase, thermal equilibration is incomplete, and the canonical assumptions of statistical mechanics are not fully operative. We explore the possibility of QDL in water, with the light proton degrees of freedom becoming "localized" on the oxygen ions. We do not presently know whether a local, generic Hamiltonian can have eigenstates of the QDL form, and if it can not, then the non-thermal behavior discussed here will exist as an interesting crossover phenomena at time scales that diverge as the ratio of the mass of the heavy to the light species also diverges.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.2288

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Quantum hydrodynamics and relativistic hydrodynamics (76Y05)

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