Quantum quenches, thermalization, and many-body localization (Articolo in rivista)

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  • Quantum quenches, thermalization, and many-body localization (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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  • 2011-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.094431 (literal)
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  • Canovi, Elena; Rossini, Davide; Fazio, Rosario; Santoro, Giuseppe E.; Silva, Alessandro (2011)
    Quantum quenches, thermalization, and many-body localization
    in Physical review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics
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  • Canovi, Elena; Rossini, Davide; Fazio, Rosario; Santoro, Giuseppe E.; Silva, Alessandro (literal)
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  • 83 (literal)
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  • 8 (literal)
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  • 9 (literal)
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  • ISI Web of Science (WOS) (literal)
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  • International School for Advanced Studies; Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa; Ist Nanosci CNR; Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics; CNR INFM Democritos Natl Simulat Ctr (literal)
Titolo
  • Quantum quenches, thermalization, and many-body localization (literal)
Abstract
  • We conjecture that thermalization following a quantum quench in a strongly correlated quantum system is closely connected to many-body delocalization in the space of quasi-particles. This scenario is tested in the anisotropic Heisenberg spin chain with different types of integrability-breaking terms. We first quantify the deviations from integrability by analyzing the level spacing statistics and the inverse participation ratio of the system's eigenstates. We then focus on thermalization, by studying the dynamics after a sudden quench of the anisotropy parameter. Our numerical simulations clearly support the conjecture, as long as the integrability-breaking term acts homogeneously on the quasiparticle space, in such a way as to induce ergodicity over all the relevant Hilbert space. (literal)
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