The presence of long-lived oscillations in the expectation values of local observables after quantum quenches has recently attracted considerable attention in relation to weak ergodicity breaking. Here we focus on an alternative mechanism that gives rise to such oscillations in a class of systems that support kinematically protected gapped excitations at zero temperature. An open question in this context is whether such oscillations will ultimately decay. We resolve this issue by considering spin models that can be mapped to systems of weakly interacting fermions, which in turn are amenable to an analysis by standard methods based on the BBGKY hierarchy. We find that there is a time scale beyond which the oscillations start to decay, which grows as the strength of the quench is made small.
Prethermal ripplons in quenched binary Bose-Einstein condensates
Joint Quantum Institute, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and University of Maryland(联合量子研究所、美国国家标准与技术研究院和马里兰大学);National Institute of Standards and Technology(美国国家标准与技术研究院)
Long-range Coulomb interactions and nonhydrodynamic behavior in thermal quenches in spin ice
当自旋冰系统经历突然的热淬火时,它们已被证明进入长寿命的亚稳态,其中自旋激发形成所谓的不可收缩对[Phys. Rev. Lett. 104,107201(2010)]。虽然这些国家的性质是很好的理解,其形成的动力学机制仍然在很大程度上未被探索,是本研究的主题。我们发现,长程尾的库仑相互作用的单极子之间起着核心作用,通过抑制的库仑辅助衰变的非收缩对相对于库仑-反库仑湮没。结合低的最终淬火温度,其中该系统进入一个非流体动力学制度,其中的单极子有效地移动在终极速度的方向上的本地力作用于他们,相互作用导致一个亚稳态的平台,持续在热力学极限。这是一个值得注意的现象,让人联想到干扰和某些玻璃化的例子:系统的短时动力学的瞬态修改允许它进入一个亚稳态,其寿命在(实验相关的)低温下可以很容易地达到天文数字。我们证明了这一点,使用蒙特卡罗模拟和平均场种群动力学理论,我们提供了一个分析的理解机制在发挥作用。当单极子之间的相互作用被截断到有限范围时,亚稳平台降低到有限尺寸效应。我们推导出的有限尺寸标度行为的非收缩对的密度在亚稳态高原的短程和长程相互作用,并讨论了我们的结果的实验意义。
Long-lived local quantum coherences from hydrodynamic large deviations
Laboratoire de Physique de l’École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, ENS & Université PSL(巴黎高等师范学院物理实验室,法国国家科学研究中心,巴黎高等师范学院及巴黎文理研究大学);Department of Physics, Princeton University(普林斯顿大学物理系);Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University(普林斯顿大学电气与计算机工程系)