Relaxation dynamics of integrable field theories after a global quantum quench

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Abstract

We apply the linked cluster expansion as well as the quench action approach to study the time evolution of one-point functions after a quantum quench in integrable field theories. We argue that the relaxation towards the stationary value fundamentally differs depending on the locality properties of the considered observable: while for local operators both exponential and power-law decaying terms are present in the dynamics, for semi-local operators the latter are absent. We explicitly confirm this for the Ising field theory, the sinh-Gordon model and the repulsive sine-Gordon model.

Original languageEnglish
Article number013103
JournalJournal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
Volume2025
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Jan 2025

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Funding

We thank Olalla Castro-Alvaredo, Jean-Sebastien Caux, Axel Cortes-Cubero, Benjamin Doyon, Fabian Essler, Jacopo De Nardis, Milosz Panfil, Stefano Scopa and Andrew Urichuk for useful discussions. This work is part of the D-ITP consortium, a program of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) that is funded by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW).

Funders
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Ministerie van onderwijs, cultuur en wetenschap

    Keywords

    • Ising model
    • quantum quench
    • relaxation dynamics
    • sine-Gordon model
    • sinh-Gordon model

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