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Quantum nonequilibrium dynamics from Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equations

Quantum Physics 2022-04-11 v3 Quantum Gases High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We consider a set of non-stationary quantum models. We show that their dynamics can be studied using links to Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov (KZ) equations for correlation functions in conformal field theories. We specifically consider the boundary Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten model, where equations for correlators of primary fields are defined by an extension of KZ equations and explore the links to dynamical systems. As an example of the workability of the proposed method, we provide an exact solution to a dynamical system that is a specific multi-level generalization of the two-level Landau-Zenner system known in the literature as the Demkov-Osherov model. The method can be used to study the nonequilibrium dynamics in various multi-level systems from the solution of the corresponding KZ equations.

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@article{arxiv.2112.12866,
  title  = {Quantum nonequilibrium dynamics from Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equations},
  author = {Tigran A. Sedrakyan and Hrachya M. Babujian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.12866},
  year   = {2022}
}

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22 pages, 2 figures

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