Thermalization in 2D critical quench and UV/IR mixing
Thermalization in 2D critical quench and UV/IR mixing
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二维临界淬火和 UV/IR 混合中的热化
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2015
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Nilakash Sorokhaibam
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G. Mandal;S. Paranjape;Nilakash Sorokhaibam
A bstractWe consider quantum quenches in models of free scalars and fermions with a generic time-dependent mass m(t) that goes from m0 to zero. We prove that, as anticipated in MSS [1], the post-quench dynamics can be described in terms of a state of the generalized Calabrese-Cardy form |ψ〉 = exp[−κ2H − ∑n >2∞κnWn]|Bd〉. The Wn (n = 2, 3, . . ., W2 = H) here represent the conserved W∞ charges and |Bd〉 represents a conformal boundary state. Our result holds irrespective of whether the pre-quench state is a ground state or a squeezed state, and is proved without recourse to perturbation expansion in the κn’s as in MSS. We compute exact time-dependent correlators for some specific quench protocols m(t). The correlators explicitly show thermalization to a generalized Gibbs ensemble (GGE), with inverse temperature β = 4κ2, and chemical potentials μn = 4κn. In case the pre-quench state is a ground state, it is possible to retrieve the exact quench protocol m(t) from the final GGE, by an application of inverse scattering techniques. Another notable result, which we interpret as a UV/IR mixing, is that the long distance and long time (IR) behaviour of some correlators depends crucially on all κn’s, although they are highly irrelevant couplings in the usual RG parlance. This indicates subtleties in RG arguments when applied to non-equilibrium dynamics.