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arXiv:1703.04331 · Il Nuovo Cimento C

Out-of-equilibrium density dynamics of a spinful Luttinger liquid

Filippo Maria Gambetta, S. Porta

Published Mar 13, 2017• 0 citations
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Abstract

Using a Luttinger liquid theory we investigate the time evolution of the particle density of a one-dimensional spinful fermionic system with open boundaries and subject to a finite-duration quench of the inter-particle interaction. Taking into account also the turning on of an umklapp perturbation to the system Hamiltonian as a result of the quench, we study the possible formation of a Wigner molecule inside the system, focusing in particular on the sudden and adiabatic regimes. We show that the creation of this correlated state is essentially due to the propagation of "light-cone" perturbations through system which arise after both switching on and switching off the quenching protocol and that its behavior strongly depends on the quench duration.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.1703.04331

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Using a Luttinger liquid theory we investigate the time evolution of the particle density of a one-dimensional fermionic system with open boundaries and subject to a finite duration quench of the interparticle interaction. We provide analytical and asymptotic solutions to the unitary time evolution of the system, showing that both switching on and switching off the quench ramp create light-cone perturbations in the density. The post-quench dynamics is strongly affected by the interference between these two perturbations. In particular, we find that the discrepancy between the time-dependent density and the one obtained by a generalized Gibbs ensemble picture vanishes with an oscillatory behavior as a function of the quench duration, with local minima corresponding to a perfect overlap of the two light-cone perturbations. For adiabatic quenches, we also obtain a similar behavior in the approach of the generalized Gibbs ensemble density towards the one associated with the ground state of the final Hamiltonian.
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We present a comprehensive analysis of the relaxation dynamics of a Luttinger liquid subject to a sequence of sudden interaction quenches. The critical exponent β governing the decay of the steady-state propagator is expressed as an explicit functional of the switching protocol. At long distances β depends only on the initial state while at short distances it is also history dependent. Continuous protocols of arbitrary complexity can be realized with infinitely long sequences. For quenches of finite duration we prove that there exists no protocol to bring the initial non-interacting system in the ground state of the Luttinger liquid, albeit thermalization occurs at short distances. The adiabatic theorem is then investigated with ramp switchings of increasing duration and several analytic results for both the propagator and the excitation energy are derived.