Quench action approach for releasing the Néel state into the spin-1/2 XXZ chain

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DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2014/12/P12009zbMATH Open1456.82233arXiv1408.5075MaRDI QIDQ3301835FDOQ3301835

B. Wouters, Jacopo de Nardis, Michael Brockmann, Rogier Vlijm, Jean-Sébastien Caux, Davide Fioretto

Publication date: 11 August 2020

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

Abstract: The steady state after a quantum quench from the N'eel state to the anisotropic Heisenberg model for spin chains is investigated. Two methods that aim to describe the postquench non-thermal equilibrium, the generalized Gibbs ensemble and the quench action approach, are discussed and contrasted. Using the recent implementation of the quench action approach for this N'eel-to-XXZ quench, we obtain an exact description of the steady state in terms of Bethe root densities, for which we give explicit analytical expressions. Furthermore, by developing a systematic small-quench expansion around the antiferromagnetic Ising limit, we analytically investigate the differences between the predictions of the two methods in terms of densities and postquench equilibrium expectation values of local physical observables. Finally, we discuss the details of the quench action solution for the quench to the isotropic Heisenberg spin chain. For this case we validate the underlying assumptions of the quench action approach by studying the large-system-size behavior of the overlaps between Bethe states and the N'eel state.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.5075





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