AIP conference proceedings
Collapse and Revival Starting from a Luttinger Liquid
Salvatore R. Manmana
Abstract
We investigate the collapse and revival of the initial state of a system of spinless fermions on a one‐dimensional lattice with nearest‐neighbor Coulomb repulsion V and nearest‐neighbor hopping t at half filling which we push out of equilibrium. Starting from a Luttinger liquid phase, we suddenly increase the interaction to a value associated with an insulating ground state. Using a variant of the time‐dependent density matrix renormalization group method (DMRG) that approximates the time‐evolution operator within a Krylov subspace, we calculate the full time evolution of quantities like the momentum distribution 〈nk〉 and the local density 〈ni〉. In the atomic limit, t = 0, the density and the density‐density correlation function are time‐independent, while 〈nk〉 changes with time, showing that in out‐of‐equilibrium situations density‐density correlations and one‐particle propagators are no longer connected by a single anomalous dimension as in the equilibrium case. Since in this limit the initial state is reobtained after Trevival = 2π/(V/t), the collapse and revival of the initial Luttinger liquid equilibrium state is discussed. Preliminary results providing insight into the behavior in the thermodynamic limit for various parameter values with finite hopping amplitude t ≠ 0 are presented.