SciPost Submission Page
Fredholm determinants, full counting statistics and Loschmidt echo for domain wall profiles in one-dimensional free fermionic chains
by Oleksandr Gamayun, Oleg Lychkovskiy, Jean-Sébastien Caux
This Submission thread is now published as
Submission summary
| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Oleksandr Gamayun · Oleg Lychkovskiy |
| Submission information | |
|---|---|
| Preprint Link: | https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01926v2 (pdf) |
| Date accepted: | 2020-02-07 |
| Date submitted: | 2020-02-04 01:00 |
| Submitted by: | Gamayun, Oleksandr |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics |
| Ontological classification | |
|---|---|
| Academic field: | Physics |
| Specialties: |
|
| Approach: | Theoretical |
Abstract
We consider an integrable system of two one-dimensional fermionic chains connected by a link. The hopping constant at the link can be different from that in the bulk. Starting from an initial state in which the left chain is populated while the right is empty, we present time-dependent full counting statistics and the Loschmidt echo in terms of Fredholm determinants. Using this exact representation, we compute the above quantities as well as the current through the link, the shot noise and the entanglement entropy in the large time limit. We find that the physics is strongly affected by the value of the hopping constant at the link. If it is smaller than the hopping constant in the bulk, then a local steady state is established at the link, while in the opposite case all physical quantities studied experience persistent oscillations. In the latter case the frequency of the oscillations is determined by the energy of the bound state and, for the Loschmidt echo, by the bias of chemical potentials.
Author comments upon resubmission
List of changes
Eqs. (7), (42), (66) and text below (86) are corrected. References [48] - [52] added.
Published as SciPost Phys. 8, 036 (2020)