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arXiv:2006.14640 · Physical review. B./Physical review. B

Dynamical transition for a class of integrable models coupled to a bath

Madhumita Sarkar, K. Sengupta

Published Dec 24, 2020• 17 citations
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Abstract

We study the dynamics of correlation functions of a class of $d$-dimensional integrable models coupled linearly to a fermionic or bosonic bath in the presence of a periodic drive with a square pulse protocol. It is well known that in the absence of the bath, these models exhibit a dynamical phase transition; all correlators decay to their steady-state values as ${n}_{0}^{\ensuremath{-}(d+2)/2}[{n}_{0}^{\ensuremath{-}d/2}]$ above [below] a critical frequency ${\ensuremath{\omega}}_{c}$, where ${n}_{0}$ is the number of drive cycles. We find that the presence of a linearly coupled fermionic bath which maintains integrability of the system preserves this transition and leads to additional ones that have no analogs in closed quantum systems. We provide a semianalytic expression for the evolution operator for this system and use it to provide a phase diagram showing the different dynamical regimes as a function of the system-bath coupling strength and the bath parameters. In contrast, when such models are coupled to a bosonic bath which breaks integrability of the model, we find exponential decay of the correlators to their steady state. Our numerical analysis shows that this exponential decay sets in above a critical number of drive cycles ${n}_{c}$ which depends on the system-bath coupling strength and the amplitude of perturbation. Below ${n}_{c}$, the system retains the power-law behavior identical to that for the closed integrable models and the dynamical transition survives. We discuss the applicability of our results for interacting fermion systems and discuss experiments which can test our theory.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.102.235154

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