Gapless quantum spin chains: multiple dynamics and conformal wavefunctions

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AA8DBCzbMATH Open1383.82030arXiv1707.02317OpenAlexW2734575564MaRDI QIDQ4597590FDOQ4597590

Authors: Xiao Chen, Eduardo Fradkin, William Witczak-Krempa 

Publication date: 13 December 2017

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

Abstract: We study gapless quantum spin chains with spin 1/2 and 1: the Fredkin and Motzkin models. Their entangled groundstates are known exactly but not their excitation spectra. We first express the groundstates in the continuum which allows for the calculation of spin and entanglement properties in a unified fashion. Doing so, we uncover an emergent conformal-type symmetry, thus consolidating the connection to a widely studied family of Lifshitz quantum critical points in 2d. We then obtain the low lying excited states via large-scale DMRG simulations and find that the dynamical exponent is z = 3.2 in both cases. Other excited states show a different z, indicating that these models have multiple dynamics. Moreover, we modify the spin-1/2 model by adding a ferromagnetic Heisenberg term, which changes the entire spectrum. We track the resulting non-trivial evolution of the dynamical exponents using DMRG. Finally, we exploit an exact map from the quantum Hamiltonian to the non-equilibrium dynamics of a classical spin chain to shed light on the quantum dynamics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.02317

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zbMATH Keywords

orbifoldsquantum entanglementconformal symmetryquantum dynamicsnon-equilibriumquantum spin chainsLifshitz quantum field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topology and geometry of orbifolds (57R18) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Dynamic lattice systems (kinetic Ising, etc.) and systems on graphs in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C20) Dynamic renormalization group methods applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C28)

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