Nonequilibrium quench dynamics in quantum quasicrystals

Iglói, Ferenc and Roósz, Gergő and Lin, Y. -C. (2013) Nonequilibrium quench dynamics in quantum quasicrystals. NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS, 15. ISSN 1367-2630

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Abstract

We study the nonequilibrium dynamics of a quasiperiodic quantum Ising chain after a sudden change in the strength of the transverse field at zero temperature. In particular we consider the dynamics of the entanglement entropy and the relaxation of the magnetization. The entanglement entropy increases with time as a power-law, and the magnetization is found to exhibit stretched- exponential relaxation. These behaviors are explained in terms of anomalously diffusing quasiparticles, which are studied in a wave packet approach. The nonequilibrium magnetization is shown to have a dynamical phase transition.

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