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arXiv:1802.07765 · Physical review. B./Physical review. B

Quantum dynamics in sine-square deformed conformal field theory: Quench from uniform to nonuniform conformal field theory

Xueda Wen, Jie-qiang Wu

Published May 31, 2018• 72 citations
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Abstract

Sine-square deformed conformal field theory has received extensive attention in both condensed matter physics and high-energy physics recently. This is due to its unusual properties, such as having a continuous Virasoro algebra. Here, the authors investigate its nonequilibrium dynamics by studying the entanglement evolution after a quantum quench. New physical effects, such as the absence of revivals in entanglement evolution, are observed in both analytical and numerical calculations. This effect could potentially be used when engineering a gapless system with cold atoms, in order to reduce finite-size effects. The work here also sheds new light on the nonequilibrium dynamics of conformal field theory in curved spacetime.

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10.1103/physrevb.97.184309

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Motivated by sine-square deformation (SSD) for quantum critical systems in 1+1 dimensions, we discuss a Möbius quantization approach to the 2D conformal field theory, which bridges the conventional radial quantization and the dipolar quantization recently proposed by Ishibashi and Tada [N. Ishibashi and T. Tada, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 48, 315402 (2015)], [N. Ishibashi and T. Tada, arXiv:1602.01190 [hep-th] [Search INSPIRE]. We then find that the continuous Virasoro algebra of the dipolar quantization can be interpreted as a continuum limit of the Virasoro algebra for scaled generators in the SSD limit of the Möbius quantization approach.
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