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Relaxation of imbalance in a disordered XX model with on-site dephasing

Ghosh, Roopayan; Žnidarič, Marko; (2023) Relaxation of imbalance in a disordered XX model with on-site dephasing. Physical Review B , 107 (18) , Article 184303. 10.1103/physrevb.107.184303. Green open access

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Abstract

The relaxation of observables to their nonequilibrium steady states in a disordered XX chain subjected to dephasing at every site has been intensely studied in recent years. We comprehensively analyze the relaxation of staggered magnetization, i.e., imbalance, in such a system, starting from the Néel initial state. We analytically predict emergence of several timescales in the system and extract results which match with large-system numerics without any extra fitting parameter until a universal timescale. An often reported stretched exponential decay is just one of the regimes which holds in a finite window of time and is therefore in fact not a true stretched exponential decay. Subsequently, the asymptotic decay of imbalance is governed by a power law irrespective of the disorder. We show that this emerges from the continuum limit of the low magnitude eigenspectrum of the Liouvillian. However, for finite systems, due to discreteness of the spectrum, the final phase of relaxation is governed by the relevant smallest Liouvillian gap.

Type: Article
Title: Relaxation of imbalance in a disordered XX model with on-site dephasing
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.107.184303
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.107.184303
Language: English
Additional information: © 2023 American Physical Society. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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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/10169654
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