Return probability after a quench from a domain wall initial state in the spin-1/2 XXZ chain

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/AA8C19MaRDI QIDQ3302857zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jean-Marie Stéphan

Publication date 11 August 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06625

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

Abstract: We study the return probability and its imaginary ($au$) time continuation after a quench from a domain wall initial state in the XXZ spin chain, focusing mainly on the region with anisotropy $|Delta|<1$. We establish exact Fredholm determinant formulas for those, by exploiting a connection to the six vertex model with domain wall boundary conditions. In imaginary time, we find the expected scaling for a partition function of a statistical mechanical model of area proportional to $a{u}^2$, which reflects the fact that the model exhibits the limit shape phenomenon. In real time, we observe that in the region $|Delta|<1$ the decay for large times $t$ is nowhere continuous as a function of anisotropy: it is either gaussian at root of unity or exponential otherwise. As an aside, we also determine that the front moves as $x_{mf}(t)=tsqrt1-Delt{a}^2$, by analytic continuation of known arctic curves in the six vertex model. Exactly at $|Delta|=1$, we find the return probability decays as $e^{-zeta(3/2)sqrtt/pi}{t}^{1/2}O(1)$. It is argued that this result provides an upper bound on spin transport. In particular, it suggests that transport should be diffusive at the isotropic point for this quench.

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