Quenches in initially coupled Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquids: a conformal field theory approach
Paola Ruggiero, Pasquale Calabrese, Laura Foini, Thierry Giamarchi
SciPost Phys. 11, 055 (2021) · published 13 September 2021
- doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.11.3.055
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Abstract
We study the quantum quench in two coupled Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquids (TLLs), from the off-critical to the critical regime, relying on the conformal field theory approach and the known solutions for single TLLs. We consider a squeezed form of the initial state, whose low energy limit is fixed in a way to describe a massive and a massless mode, and we encode the non-equilibrium dynamics in a proper rescaling of the time. In this way, we compute several correlation functions, which at leading order factorize into multipoint functions evaluated at different times for the two modes. Depending on the observable, the contribution from the massive or from the massless mode can be the dominant one, giving rise to exponential or power-law decay in time, respectively. Our results find a direct application in all the quench problems where, in the scaling limit, there are two independent massless fields: these include the Hubbard model, the Gaudin-Yang gas, and tunnel-coupled tubes in cold atoms experiments.
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Authors / Affiliations: mappings to Contributors and Organizations
See all Organizations.- 1 Paola Ruggiero,
- 2 3 4 Pasquale Calabrese,
- 5 Laura Foini,
- 1 Thierry Giamarchi
- 1 Université de Genève / University of Geneva [UNIGE]
- 2 Centro Internazionale di Fisica Teorica Abdus Salam / Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics [ICTP]
- 3 Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati / International School for Advanced Studies [SISSA]
- 4 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (presso la SISSA) / National Institute of Nuclear Physics (at SISSA) [INFN at SISSA]
- 5 L'Institut de physique théorique [IPhT]