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Real-time dynamics of a critical Resonating Valence Bond spin liquid

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2023-03-21 v3

Abstract

Implementation of the hardcore-dimer Hilbert space in cold Rydberg-atom simulators opens a new route of investigating real-time dynamics of dimer liquids under Hamiltonian quench. Here, we consider an initial Resonating Valence Bond (RVB) state on the square lattice realizing a critical Coulomb phase with algebraic and dipolar correlations. Using its representation as a special point of a broad manifold of SU(22)-symmetric, translationnally invariant, Projected Entangled Pair States (PEPS), we compute its non-equilibrium dynamics upon turning on inter-site Heisenberg interactions. We show that projecting the time-evolution onto the PEPS manifold remains accurate at small time scales. We also find that the state evolves within a PEPS sub-manifold characterized by a U(11) gauge symmetry, suggesting that the Coulomb phase is stable under such unitary evolution.

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@article{arxiv.2206.07968,
  title  = {Real-time dynamics of a critical Resonating Valence Bond spin liquid},
  author = {Ravi Teja Ponnaganti and Matthieu Mambrini and Didier Poilblanc},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.07968},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

18 pages, 21 figures. Update: The Appendix on the Variational Optimization scheme has been removed to be published in a separate article