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Thermalization of Yang-Mills theory in a $(3+1)$ dimensional small lattice system

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2021-05-19 v2 Quantum Gases High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

We study the real-time evolution of SU(22) Yang-Mills theory in a (3+1)(3+1) dimensional small lattice system after interaction quench. We numerically solve the Schr{\"o}dinger equation with the Kogut-Susskind Hamiltonian in the physical Hilbert space obtained by solving Gauss law constraints. We observe the thermalization of a Wilson loop to the canonical state; the relaxation time is insensitive to the coupling strength, and estimated as τeq2π/T\tau_{\rm eq}\sim 2\pi/T with temperatures TT at steady states. We also compute the vacuum persistence probability (the Loschmidt echo) to understand the relaxation from the dynamics of the wave function.

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@article{arxiv.2011.09814,
  title  = {Thermalization of Yang-Mills theory in a $(3+1)$ dimensional small lattice system},
  author = {Tomoya Hayata and Yoshimasa Hidaka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.09814},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

10 pages, 8 figures; (v2) version accepted for publication in PRD