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Exact solution for the Lindbladian dynamics for the open XX spin chain with boundary dissipation

Statistical Mechanics 2023-03-23 v2 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We obtain exact formulas for the time-dependence of a few physical observables for the open XX spin chain with Lindbladian dynamics. Our analysis is based on the fact that the Lindblad equation for an arbitrary open quadratic system of NN fermions is explicitly solved in terms of diagonalization of a 4N×4N4N\times4N matrix called structure matrix by following the scheme of the third quantization. We mainly focus on the time-dependence of magnetization and spin current. As a short-time behavior at a given site, we observe the plateau regime except near the center of the chain. Basic features of this are explained by the light-cone structure created by propagations of boundary effects from the initial time, but we can explain their more detailed properties analytically using our exact formulas. On the other hand, after the plateau regime, the magnetization and spin current exhibit a slow decay to the steady state values described by the Liouvillian gap. We analytically establish its O(N3)O(N^{-3}) scaling and also determine its coefficient.

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@article{arxiv.2104.11479,
  title  = {Exact solution for the Lindbladian dynamics for the open XX spin chain with boundary dissipation},
  author = {Kohei Yamanaka and Tomohiro Sasamoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.11479},
  year   = {2023}
}

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22 pages, 7 figures