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On the size of the space spanned by a nonequilibrium state in a quantum spin lattice system

Quantum Physics 2019-05-15 v4 Statistical Mechanics Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We consider the time evolution of a state in an isolated quantum spin lattice system with energy cumulants proportional to the number of the sites LdL^d. We compute the distribution of the eigenvalues of the time averaged state over a time window [t0,t0+t][t_0,t_0+t] in the limit of large LL. This allows us to infer the size of a subspace that captures time evolution in [t0,t0+t][t_0,t_0+t] with an accuracy 1ϵ1-\epsilon. We estimate the size to be 2e2πerf1(1ϵ)Ld2t \frac{\sqrt{2\mathfrak{e}_2}}{\pi}\mathrm{erf}^{-1}(1-\epsilon) L^{\frac{d}{2}}t, where e2\mathfrak{e}_2 is the energy variance per site, and erf1\mathrm{erf}^{-1} is the inverse error function.

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@article{arxiv.1901.10797,
  title  = {On the size of the space spanned by a nonequilibrium state in a quantum spin lattice system},
  author = {Maurizio Fagotti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.10797},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

25 pages, 7 figures; new appendix with a proof that the energy cumulants are extensive whenever the Hamiltonian is quasilocal and the state has finite correlation lengths