Crossover physics in the non-equilibrium dynamics of quenched quantum impurity systems
Abstract
A general framework is proposed to tackle analytically local quantum quenches in integrable impurity systems, combining a mapping onto a boundary problem with the form factor approach to boundary-condition-changing operators introduced in Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 4370 (1998). We discuss how to compute exactly two central quantities of interest: the Loschmidt echo and the distribution of the work done during the quantum quench. Our results display an interesting crossover physics characterized by the energy scale T_b of the impurity corresponding to the Kondo temperature. We discuss in detail the non-interacting case as a paradigm and benchmark for more complicated integrable impurity models, and check our results using numerical methods.
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@article{arxiv.1303.6655,
title = {Crossover physics in the non-equilibrium dynamics of quenched quantum impurity systems},
author = {Romain Vasseur and Kien Trinh and Stephan Haas and Hubert Saleur},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.6655},
year = {2013}
}
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4.5 pages + supplementary material. Published version