Interaction-disorder competition in a spin system evaluated through the Loschmidt echo

The interplay between interactions and disorder in closed quantum many-body systems is relevant for thermalization phenomenon. In this paper, we address this competition in an infinite temperature spin system by means of the Loschmidt echo (LE), which is based on a time reversal procedure. This quan...

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Autores: Zangara, Pablo René, Dente, Axel Damián, Iucci, Carlos Aníbal, Levstein, Patricia Rebeca, Pastawski, Horacio Miguel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/23720
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/23720
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Disorder
Spin chain
Quench
Loschmidt echo
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Sumario:The interplay between interactions and disorder in closed quantum many-body systems is relevant for thermalization phenomenon. In this paper, we address this competition in an infinite temperature spin system by means of the Loschmidt echo (LE), which is based on a time reversal procedure. This quantity has been formerly employed to connect quantum and classical chaos, and in the present many-body scenario we use it as a dynamical witness. We assess the LE time scales as a function of disorder and interaction strengths. The strategy enables a qualitative phase diagram that shows the regions of ergodic and nonergodic behavior of the polarization under the echo dynamics.