Abstract We consider a local instantaneous quantum dynamical process (QDP) that disturbs the background unitary Hamiltonian dynamics of a spin chain. We consider both a non-unitary incoherent QDP and a coherent unitary QDP intervention of the dynamical evolution of the spin chain. To track the effect of QDP on the dynamics, we investigate the Loschmidt echo, which is quite sensitive to whether the background dynamics is integrable or not. For the integrable case, namely the Heisenberg model, the Loschmidt echo depends on the parameters corresponding to the QDP as well as the time of occurrence of QDP. The probability of reviving the system to its initial state is higher for non-unitary/incoherent QDPs occurring at large time intervals. In the case of a unitary/coherent QDP, some amount of the probability of reviving the state is lost. For the non-integrable background dynamics we consider a kicked Harper model. It exhibits a decaying behaviour when contrasted with integrable dynamics. The decay rate is slower when the corresponding classical Hamiltonian is non-chaotic.
Abstract We consider a local instantaneous quantum dynamical process (QDP) that disturbs the background unitary Hamiltonian dynamics of a spin chain. We consider both a non-unitary incoherent QDP and a coherent unitary QDP intervention of the dynamical evolution of the spin chain. To track the effect of QDP on the dynamics, we investigate the Loschmidt echo, which is quite sensitive to whether the background dynamics is integrable or not. For the integrable case, namely the Heisenberg model, the Loschmidt echo depends on the parameters corresponding to the QDP as well as the time of occurrence of QDP. The probability of reviving the system to its initial state is higher for non-unitary/incoherent QDPs occurring at large time intervals. In the case of a unitary/coherent QDP, some amount of the probability of reviving the state is lost. For the non-integrable background dynamics we consider a kicked Harper model. It exhibits a decaying behaviour when contrasted with integrable dynamics. The decay rate is slower when the corresponding classical Hamiltonian is non-chaotic.
The effect of a local instantaneous quantum dynamical process (QDP), either unitary or non- unitary, on the quantum state transfer through a unitary Hamiltonian evolution is investigated for both integrable and non-integrable dynamics. There are interference effects of the quantum state propagation and the QDP signal propagation. The state transfer fidelity is small for further sites, from the site where the information is coded, indicating a finite speed for the propagation of the quantum correlation. There is a small change in the state transfer fidelity for the case of non- unitary QDP intervening the background unitary dynamics. In the case of unitary QDP, the change is more pronounced, with a substantial increase in the fidelity for appropriate sites and times. The Loschmidt echo is investigated to track the effect of the local QDP. It is also quite sensitive to whether the background dynamics is integrable or not. For the integrable case, viz. the Heisenberg model, the Loschmidt echo falls off as a function of the time of QDP occurrence, and saturates to a value, depending on the parameter values. For the non-integrable case, viz. a kicked Harper model, it exhibits an oscillatory behaviour around a larger value. The state transfer fidelity, in this case, is quite large for further sites for short times, indicating a finite speed for the propagation of the quantum correlation cannot be defined.
Abstract The effect of a local instantaneous quantum dynamical process (QDP), either unitary or non-unitary, on the quantum state transfer through a unitary Hamiltonian evolution is investigated for both integrable and non-integrable dynamics. There are interference effects of the quantum state propagation and the QDP signal propagation. The state transfer fidelity is small for further sites, from the site where the information is coded, indicating a finite speed for the propagation of the quantum correlation. There is a small change in the state transfer fidelity for the case of the non-unitary QDP intervening in the the background of unitary dynamics. In the case of the unitary QDP, the change is more pronounced, with a substantial increase in the fidelity for appropriate sites and times. For the non-integrable case, namely a kicked Harper model, the state transfer fidelity is quite large for further sites for short times, indicating that a finite speed for the propagation of the quantum correlation cannot be defined.
The Loschmidt echo, defined as the overlap between quantum wave function evolved with different Hamiltonians, quantifies the sensitivity of quantum dynamics to perturbations and is often used as a probe of quantum chaos. In this work we consider the behavior of the Loschmidt echo in the many-body localized phase, which is characterized by emergent local integrals of motion and provides a generic example of nonergodic dynamics. We demonstrate that the fluctuations of the Loschmidt echo decay as a power law in time in the many-body localized phase, in contrast to the exponential decay in few-body ergodic systems. We consider the spin-echo generalization of the Loschmidt echo and argue that the corresponding correlation function saturates to a finite value in localized systems. Slow, power-law decay of fluctuations of such spin-echo-type overlap is related to the operator spreading and is present only in the many-body localized phase, but not in a noninteracting Anderson insulator. While most of the previously considered probes of dephasing dynamics could be understood by approximating physical spin operators with local integrals of motion, the Loschmidt echo and its generalizations crucially depend on the full expansion of the physical operators via local integrals of motion operators, as well as operators which flip local integrals of motion. Hence these probes allow one to get insights into the relation between physical operators and local integrals of motion and access the operator spreading in the many-body localized phase.
We investigate the Loschmidt echo in a one-dimensional spin chain having Kitaev-type interaction in constant and kicked magnetic fields. The Loschmidt echo for the initial states having different magnon excitations shows long-time revivals for smaller chains and has short-time revival peaks for the longer chains. The system near the critical point shows peculiarly long-time revival peaks of the Loschmidt echo for relatively larger chains. The presence of a magnon in the initial state affects the Loschmidt echo revival peaks. The momentum distribution function exhibits maxima for a few momenta that are associated with the momentum of the magnon excitation present in the initial states. The probability maxima decay as O(1/N) with the system size. For the Hamiltonian with kicked magnetic fields, the Loschmidt echo depends on the kick period. For a special kick period, the Loschmidt echo shows no evolution at all irrespective of the system size.
Abstract We have considered the spin-1/2 XXZ chain model which is exactly solvable with the Bethe anzats method. It is shown adding a single defect away from edges is sufficient to see a chaos signature in the model. In this work, we have studied the time behavior of the Loschmidt-echo (LE) by considering domain-wall and Neel states as two product initial states and also a Bell state as an entangled initial state. We have used the numerical full diagonalization method to have full spectrum of the model. It is shown that very short times behavior of the LE is independent from defect and initial state, and the decay is quadratic. Moreover, results show that in the chaotic regime and for intermediate times, the exponential decay behavior of the LE shows some changes by removing defect from the chain in the domain-wall and Bell states, while no changes is seen in the Neel state. To get some intuition of these changes, we have addressed the relation between the dynamics of the LE and the local density of states features.
We address the time decay of the Loschmidt echo, measuring the sensitivity of quantum dynamics to small Hamiltonian perturbations, in one-dimensional integrable systems. Using a semiclassical analysis, we show that the Loschmidt echo may exhibit a well-pronounced regime of exponential decay, similar to the one typically observed in quantum systems whose dynamics is chaotic in the classical limit. We derive an explicit formula for the exponential decay rate in terms of the spectral properties of the unperturbed and perturbed Hamilton operators and the initial state. In particular, we show that the decay rate, unlike in the case of the chaotic dynamics, is directly proportional to the strength of the Hamiltonian perturbation. Finally, we compare our analytical predictions against the results of a numerical computation of the Loschmidt echo for a quantum particle moving inside a one-dimensional box with Dirichlet-Robin boundary conditions, and find the two in good agreement.