Quench dynamics and relaxation in isolated integrable quantum spin chains

FHL Essler, M Fagotti - Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the dynamics after quantum quenches in integrable quantum spin chains. We
give a pedagogical introduction to relaxation in isolated quantum systems, and discuss the …

Entanglement and thermodynamics after a quantum quench in integrable systems

V Alba, P Calabrese - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017 - pnas.org
Entanglement and entropy are key concepts standing at the foundations of quantum and
statistical mechanics. Recently, the study of quantum quenches revealed that these …

Entanglement spreading in a minimal model of maximal many-body quantum chaos

B Bertini, P Kos, T Prosen - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
The spreading of entanglement in out-of-equilibrium quantum systems is currently at the
center of intense interdisciplinary research efforts involving communities with interests …

Quantum quenches in 1+ 1 dimensional conformal field theories

P Calabrese, J Cardy - Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the imaginary time path integral approach to the quench dynamics of conformal
field theories. We show how this technique can be applied to the determination of the time …

Entanglement dynamics after quantum quenches in generic integrable systems

V Alba, P Calabrese - SciPost Physics, 2018 - scipost.org
The time evolution of the entanglement entropy in non-equilibrium quantum systems
provides crucial information about the structure of the time-dependent state. For quantum …

Quantum quench and thermalization to GGE in arbitrary dimensions and the odd-even effect

P Banerjee, A Gaikwad, A Kaushal… - Journal of High Energy …, 2020 - Springer
A bstract In many quantum quench experiments involving cold atom systems the post-
quench phase can be described by a quantum field theory of free scalars or fermions …

Entanglement growth after a global quench in free scalar field theory

JS Cotler, MP Hertzberg, M Mezei… - Journal of High Energy …, 2016 - Springer
A bstract We compute the entanglement and Rényi entropy growth after a global quench in
various dimensions in free scalar field theory. We study two types of quenches: a boundary …

Thermalization and pseudolocality in extended quantum systems

B Doyon - Communications in Mathematical Physics, 2017 - Springer
Recently, it was understood that modified concepts of locality played an important role in the
study of extended quantum systems out of equilibrium, in particular in so-called generalized …

Decay and recurrence of non-Gaussian correlations in a quantum many-body system

T Schweigler, M Gluza, M Tajik, S Sotiriadis… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Gaussian models provide an excellent effective description of many quantum many-body
systems ranging from condensed-matter systems, all the way to neutron stars. Gaussian …

Thermalization and light cones in a model with weak integrability breaking

B Bertini, FHL Essler, S Groha, NJ Robinson - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We employ equation-of-motion techniques to study the nonequilibrium dynamics in a lattice
model of weakly interacting spinless fermions. Our model provides a simple setting for …