English

Nonequilibrium quantum dynamics and transport: from integrability to many-body localization

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2016-07-07 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We review the non-equilibrium dynamics of many-body quantum systems after a quantum quench with spatial inhomogeneities, either in the Hamiltonian or in the initial state. We focus on integrable and many-body localized systems that fail to self-thermalize in isolation and for which the standard hydrodynamical picture breaks down. The emphasis is on universal dynamics, non-equilibrium steady states and new dynamical phases of matter, and on phase transitions far from thermal equilibrium. We describe how the infinite number of conservation laws of integrable and many-body localized systems lead to complex non-equilibrium states beyond the traditional dogma of statistical mechanics.

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@article{arxiv.1603.06618,
  title  = {Nonequilibrium quantum dynamics and transport: from integrability to many-body localization},
  author = {Romain Vasseur and Joel E. Moore},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.06618},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

29 pages, 7 figures, review article for special issue of JSTAT on Quantum Integrability in Out of Equilibrium Systems

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