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Nontrivial damping of quantum many-body dynamics

Heitmann, T; Richter, J; Gemmer, J; Steinigeweg, R; (2021) Nontrivial damping of quantum many-body dynamics. Physical Review E , 104 , Article 054145. 10.1103/PhysRevE.104.054145. Green open access

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Abstract

Understanding how the dynamics of a given quantum system with many degrees of freedom is altered by the presence of a generic perturbation is a notoriously difficult question. Recent works predict that, in the overwhelming majority of cases, the unperturbed dynamics is just damped by a simple function, e.g., exponentially as expected from Fermi's golden rule. While these predictions rely on random-matrix arguments and typicality, they can only be verified for a specific physical situation by comparing to the actual solution or measurement. Crucially, it also remains unclear how frequent and under which conditions counterexamples to the typical behavior occur. In this work, we discuss this question from the perspective of projection-operator techniques, where exponential damping of a density matrix occurs in the interaction picture but not necessarily in the Schr\"odinger picture. We show that a nontrivial damping in the Schr\"odinger picture can emerge if the dynamics in the unperturbed system possesses rich features, for instance due to the presence of strong interactions. This suggestion has consequences for the time dependence of correlation functions. We substantiate our theoretical arguments by large-scale numerical simulations of charge transport in the extended Fermi-Hubbard chain, where the nearest-neighbor interactions are treated as a perturbation to the integrable reference system.

Type: Article
Title: Nontrivial damping of quantum many-body dynamics
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.104.054145
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.104.054145
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: cond-mat.stat-mech, cond-mat.stat-mech, cond-mat.str-el, quant-ph
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10140082
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