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arXiv:1201.2492 · Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment

Equilibration in long-range quantum spin systems from a BBGKY perspective

Rytis Paškauskas, Michael Kästner

Published Feb 3, 2012• 11 citations
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Abstract

The time evolution of -spin reduced density operators is studied for a class of Heisenberg-type quantum spin models with long-range interactions. In the framework of the quantum Bogoliubov–Born–Green–Kirkwood–Yvon (BBGKY) hierarchy, we introduce an unconventional representation, different from the usual cluster expansion, which casts the hierarchy into the form of a second-order recursion. This structure suggests a scaling of the expansion coefficients and the corresponding time scales in powers of N 1/2 with the system size N , implying a separation of time scales in the large-system limit. For special parameter values and initial conditions, we can show analytically that closing the BBGKY hierarchy by neglecting -spin correlations never leads to equilibration, but gives rise to quasi-periodic time evolution with at most independent frequencies. Moreover, for the same special parameter values and in the large- N limit, we solve the complete recursion relation (the full BBGKY hierarchy), observing a superexponential decay to equilibrium in rescaled time τ = tN − 1/2 .

DOI
10.1088/1742-5468/2012/02/p02005

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We establish a theoretical framework for the exploration of the quantum dynamics of finite ultracold bosonic ensembles based on the Born-Bogoliubov-Green-Kirkwood-Yvon (BBGKY) hierarchy for equations of motion for few-particle reduced density matrices (RDMs). The theory applies to zero as well as low temperatures and is formulated in a highly efficient way by utilizing dynamically optimized single-particle basis states and representing the RDMs in terms of permanents with respect to those. An energy, RDM compatibility and, if applicable, symmetry conserving closure approximation is developed on the basis of a cluster expansion for these finite systems, using suitably normalized RDMs and symmetrization operators. The underlying cluster expansion is formulated recursively by means of super-operators, which allows for going to large truncation orders. In order to enforce necessary representability conditions, two novel, minimal-invasive and energy-conserving correction algorithms are proposed, involving the dynamical purification of the solution of the truncated BBGKY hierarchy and the correction of the equations of motion themselves, respectively. For gaining conceptual insights, the impact of two-particle correlations on the dynamical quantum depletion is studied analytically. The theoretical framework provided here is extensively applied and evaluated in our immediate follow-up work [1], involving truncation orders as large as twelve.
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