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We study the evolution of entanglement after a global quench in a one-dimensional quantum system with a localized impurity. For systems described by a conformal field theory, the entanglement entropy between the two regions separated by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-12 Luca Capizzi , Viktor Eisler

We study the time evolution of the entanglement negativity after a local quantum quench in (1+1)-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs), which we introduce by suddenly joining two initially decoupled CFTs at their endpoints. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-12 Xueda Wen , Po-Yao Chang , Shinsei Ryu

We show that the dynamics resulting from preparing a one-dimensional quantum system in the ground state of two decoupled parts, then joined together and left to evolve unitarily with a translational invariant Hamiltonian (a local quench),…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pasquale Calabrese , John Cardy

We develop a method to calculate generic time-dependent correlation functions for inhomogeneous quantum quenches in (1+1)-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) induced by sudden Hamiltonian deformations that modulate the energy density…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-06 Xinyu Liu , Alexander McDonald , Tokiro Numasawa , Biao Lian , Shinsei Ryu

We present a framework for investigating the response of conformally-invariant confined 1+1-dimensional systems to a quantum quench. While conformal invariance is generally destroyed in a global quantum quench, systems that can be described…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-12 Dalit Engelhardt

We establish the emergence of a conformal field theory (CFT) in a (1+1)-dimensional hybrid quantum circuit right at the measurement-driven entanglement transition by revealing space-time conformal covariance of entanglement entropies and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Yaodong Li , Xiao Chen , Andreas W. W. Ludwig , Matthew P. A. Fisher

We investigate the time evolution of entanglement negativity following a global quench for mixed state configurations of two disjoint and adjacent intervals in a ($1+1$)-dimensional conformal field theory ($CFT_{1+1}$) dual to the eternal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-04 Vinay Malvimat , Sayid Mondal , Gautam Sengupta

For two dimensional conformal field theories in the ground state, it is known that a conformal interface along the entanglement cut can suppress the entanglement entropy from $S_A\sim c\log L$ to $S_A\sim c_{\text{eff}}\log L$, where $L$ is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-09 Xueda Wen , Yuxuan Wang , Shinsei Ryu

In this work, motivated by the sine-square deformation (SSD) for (1+1)-dimensional quantum critical systems, we study the non-equilibrium quantum dynamics of a conformal field theory (CFT) with SSD, which was recently proposed to have…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-13 Xueda Wen , Jie-Qiang Wu

We study the temporal evolution of the entanglement hamiltonian of an interval after a global quantum quenchin free lattice models in one spatial dimension. In a harmonic chain we explore a quench of the frequency parameter. In a chain of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-01 Giuseppe Di Giulio , Raul Arias , Erik Tonni

We study a particular type of local quench in a generic quantum critical one-dimensional system, using conformal field theory (CFT) techniques, and providing numerical checks of the results in free fermion systems. The system is initially…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-19 Jean-Marie Stéphan , Jérôme Dubail

We describe several results concerning global quantum quenches from states with short-range correlations to quantum critical points whose low-energy properties are described by a 1+1-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT), extending the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-26 John Cardy

We consider the time evolution of the gaps of the entanglement spectrum for a block of consecutive sites in finite transverse field Ising chains after sudden quenches of the magnetic field. We provide numerical evidence that, whenever we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-01 Jacopo Surace , Luca Tagliacozzo , Erik Tonni

We study the problem of a quantum quench in which the initial state is the ground state of an inhomogeneous hamiltonian, in two different models, conformal field theory and ordinary free field theory, which are known to exhibit…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-28 Spyros Sotiriadis , John Cardy

We propose a holographic realization of quantum quenches in two dimensional conformal field theories. In particular, we discuss time evolutions of holographic entanglement entropy in these backgrounds and compare them with CFT results. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-11-12 Tomonori Ugajin

We study the non equilibrium time evolution of an integrable field theory in 1+1 dimensions after a sudden variation of a global parameter of the Hamiltonian. For a class of quenches defined in the text, we compute the long times limit of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-12-02 Davide Fioretto , Giuseppe Mussardo

We establish an equivalence between two different quantum quench problems, the joining local quantum quench and the M\"obius quench, in the context of $(1+1)$-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT). Here, in the former, two initially…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-21 Jonah Kudler-Flam , Masahiro Nozaki , Tokiro Numasawa , Shinsei Ryu , Mao Tian Tan

Understanding the mechanisms by which complex correlations emerge through the dynamics of quantum many-body systems remains a fundamental challenge in modern physics. To address this, quench dynamics starting from nonthermal states have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-22 Zixia Wei , Yasushi Yoneta

In this work, we study the time evolution of the entanglement hamiltonian during the process of thermalization in a (1+1)-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) after a quantum quench from a special class of initial states. In particular,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-05 Xueda Wen , Shinsei Ryu , Andreas W. W. Ludwig

We study the time evolution of the logarithmic negativity after a global quantum quench. In a 1+1 dimensional conformal invariant field theory, we consider the negativity between two intervals which can be either adjacent or disjoint. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-23 Andrea Coser , Erik Tonni , Pasquale Calabrese
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