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Relaxation dynamics of integrable field theories after a global quantum quench

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2025-04-01 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We apply the linked cluster expansion as well as the quench action approach to study the time evolution of one-point functions after a quantum quench in integrable field theories. We argue that the relaxation towards the stationary value fundamentally differs depending on the locality properties of the considered observable: while for local operators both exponential and power-law decaying terms are present in the dynamics, for semi-local operators the latter are absent. We explicitly confirm this for the Ising field theory, the sinh-Gordon model, and the repulsive sine-Gordon model.

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@article{arxiv.2410.00682,
  title  = {Relaxation dynamics of integrable field theories after a global quantum quench},
  author = {Emanuele Di Salvo and Dirk Schuricht},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.00682},
  year   = {2025}
}

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43 pages