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Bloch oscillations and the lack of the decay of the false vacuum in a one-dimensional quantum spin chain
by O. Pomponio, M. A. Werner, G. Zarand, G. Takacs
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Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Gabor Takacs |
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Preprint Link: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.00014v4 (pdf) |
Date accepted: | 2022-02-04 |
Date submitted: | 2022-01-24 09:22 |
Submitted by: | Takacs, Gabor |
Submitted to: | SciPost Physics |
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Academic field: | Physics |
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Approaches: | Theoretical, Computational |
Abstract
We consider the decay of the false vacuum, realised within a quantum quench into an anti-confining regime of the Ising spin chain with a magnetic field opposite to the initial magnetisation. Although the effective linear potential between the domain walls is repulsive, the time evolution of correlations still shows a suppression of the light cone and a reduction of vacuum decay. The suppressed decay is a lattice effect, and can be assigned to emergent Bloch oscillations.
Author comments upon resubmission
We added text to the introduction, and also a detailed discussion to the conclusion, regarding the results of Refs. [34] and [38].
Published as SciPost Phys. 12, 061 (2022)