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Disorder-Order Interface Propagating over the Ferromagnetic Ground State in the Transverse Field Ising Chain

Statistical Mechanics 2025-05-22 v3 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Strongly Correlated Electrons Quantum Physics

Abstract

We consider time evolution of order parameters and entanglement asymmetries in the ferromagnetic phase of the transverse-field Ising chain. One side of the system is prepared in a ferromagnetic ground state and the other side either in equilibrium at higher temperature or out of equilibrium. We focus on the disorder-order interface in which the order parameter attains a nonzero value, different from the ground state one. In that region, correlations follow a universal behaviour. We analytically compute the asymptotic scaling functions of the one- and two-point equal time correlations of the order parameter and provide numerical evidence that also the non-equal time correlations are universal. We analyze the R\'enyi entanglement asymmetries of subsystems and obtain a prediction that is expected to hold also in the von Neumann limit. Finally, we show that the Wigner-Yanase skew information of the order paramerter in subsystems within the interfacial region scales as their length squared. We propose a semiclassical approximation that is particularly effective close to the edge of the lightcone.

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@article{arxiv.2411.04089,
  title  = {Disorder-Order Interface Propagating over the Ferromagnetic Ground State in the Transverse Field Ising Chain},
  author = {Vanja Marić and Florent Ferro and Maurizio Fagotti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.04089},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

22 pages, 13 figures; v2: connection with the Tracy-Widom distribution highlighted; v3: accepted for publication