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Quench dynamics and relaxation in isolated integrable quantum spin chains
- Abstract:
- We review the dynamics after quantum quenches in integrable quantum spin chains. We give a pedagogical introduction to relaxation in isolated quantum systems, and discuss the description of the steady state by (generalized) Gibbs ensembles. We then turn to general features in the time evolution of local observables after the quench, using a simple model of free fermions as an example. In the second part we present an overview of recent progress in describing quench dynamics in two key paradigms for quantum integrable models, the transverse field Ising chain and the anisotropic spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1088/1742-5468/2016/06/064002
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- Publisher:
- Institute of Physics
- Journal:
- Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment More from this journal
- Volume:
- 2016
- Issue:
- 6
- Pages:
- 064002
- Publication date:
- 2016-06-24
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-05-08
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1742-5468
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pubs:612021
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612021
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- IOP Publishing Ltd and SISSA Medialab srl
- Copyright date:
- 2016
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- © 2016 IOP Publishing Ltd and SISSA Medialab srl. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from the Institute of Physics at at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-5468/2016/06/064002
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