English

Quantum quench of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2017-11-22 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We describe the non-equilibrium dynamics of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models of fermions with all-to-all interactions. These provide tractable models of the dynamics of quantum systems without quasiparticle excitations. The Kadanoff-Baym equations show that the final state is thermal, and their numerical analysis appears consistent with a thermalization rate proportional to the absolute temperature of the final state. We also obtain an exact analytic solution of the non-equilibrium dynamics in the large qq limit of a model with qq fermion interactions: in this limit, the thermalization of the fermion Green's function is instantaneous.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1706.07803,
  title  = {Quantum quench of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model},
  author = {Andreas Eberlein and Valentin Kasper and Subir Sachdev and Julia Steinberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.07803},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

35 pages, 9 figures; (v2) added clarifications and refs