Mathematical analysis of time flow

Analysis ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rudolf Hilfer
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Analysis ◽  
Stationary Solutions ◽  
Bounded Mean Oscillation ◽  
Many Body ◽  
C Algebras ◽  
Mean Oscillation ◽  
Time Flow ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Many Body Systems ◽  
Definition Of

AbstractThe mathematical analysis of time flow in physical many-body systems leads to the study of long-time limits. This article discusses the interdisciplinary problem of local stationarity, how stationary solutions can remain slowly time dependent after a long-time limit. A mathematical definition of almost invariant and nearly indistinguishable states on C*-algebras is introduced using functions of bounded mean oscillation. Rescaling of time yields generalized time flows of almost invariant and macroscopically indistinguishable states, that are mathematically related to stable convolution semigroups and fractional calculus. The infinitesimal generator is a fractional derivative of order less than or equal to unity. Applications of the analysis are given to irreversibility and to a physical experiment.

scholarly journals Feynman diagrams and rooted maps

Open Physics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Prunotto ◽  
Wanda Maria Alberico ◽  
Piotr Czerski
Keyword(s):  
Single Particle ◽  
Feynman Diagram ◽  
Feynman Diagrams ◽  
Topological Properties ◽  
Many Body ◽  
Perturbative Order ◽  
Original Definition ◽  
Many Body Systems ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Particle Propagator

Abstract The rooted maps theory, a branch of the theory of homology, is shown to be a powerful tool for investigating the topological properties of Feynman diagrams, related to the single particle propagator in the quantum many-body systems. The numerical correspondence between the number of this class of Feynman diagrams as a function of perturbative order and the number of rooted maps as a function of the number of edges is studied. A graphical procedure to associate Feynman diagrams and rooted maps is then stated. Finally, starting from rooted maps principles, an original definition of the genus of a Feynman diagram, which totally differs from the usual one, is given.

scholarly journals Quantum echo dynamics in the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Pappalardi ◽  
Anatoli Polkovnikov ◽  
Alessandro Silva
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Transverse Field ◽  
Many Body ◽  
Initial State ◽  
Large N ◽  
Semiclassical Dynamics ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Kirkpatrick Model ◽  
Ehrenfest Time ◽  
Many Body Systems

Understanding the footprints of chaos in quantum-many-body systems has been under debate for a long time. In this work, we study the echo dynamics of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick (SK) model with transverse field under effective time reversal. We investigate numerically its quantum and semiclassical dynamics. We explore how chaotic many-body quantum physics can lead to exponential divergence of the echo of observables and we show that it is a result of three requirements: i) the collective nature of the observable, ii) a properly chosen initial state and iii) the existence of a well-defined chaotic semi-classical (large-N) limit. Under these conditions, the echo grows exponentially up to the Ehrenfest time, which scales logarithmically with the number of spins N. In this regime, the echo is well described by the semiclassical (truncated Wigner) approximation. We also discuss a short-range version of the SK model, where the Ehrenfest time does not depend on N and the quantum echo shows only polynomial growth. Our findings provide new insights on scrambling and echo dynamics and how to observe it experimentally.

Discrete Time Crystals

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 467-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominic V. Else ◽  
Christopher Monroe ◽  
Chetan Nayak ◽  
Norman Y. Yao
Keyword(s):  
Discrete Time ◽  
Quantum Dynamics ◽  
Many Body ◽  
Time Translation ◽  
Translation Symmetry ◽  
Interesting Class ◽  
Many Body Systems ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Many Body Interactions ◽  
Time Crystals

Experimental advances have allowed for the exploration of nearly isolated quantum many-body systems whose coupling to an external bath is very weak. A particularly interesting class of such systems is those that do not thermalize under their own isolated quantum dynamics. In this review, we highlight the possibility for such systems to exhibit new nonequilibrium phases of matter. In particular, we focus on discrete time crystals, which are many-body phases of matter characterized by a spontaneously broken discrete time-translation symmetry. We give a definition of discrete time crystals from several points of view, emphasizing that they are a nonequilibrium phenomenon that is stabilized by many-body interactions, with no analog in noninteracting systems. We explain the theory behind several proposed models of discrete time crystals, and compare several recent realizations, in different experimental contexts.

THE UNIVERSAL EQUATIONS OF MOTION FOR NONLINEAR FIELDS IN DIFFERENT BASES DESCRIBING STRONGLY INTERACTING MANY-BODY SYSTEMS WITH TWO-BODY INTERACTIONS

1995 ◽  
Vol 09 (13n14) ◽  
pp. 1611-1637 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.M. DIXON ◽  
J.A. TUSZYŃSKI
Keyword(s):  
Plane Wave ◽  
Coherent Structures ◽  
Equations Of Motion ◽  
Quantum Field ◽  
Many Body ◽  
Field Equations ◽  
Strongly Interacting ◽  
Highly Nonlinear ◽  
Many Body Systems ◽  
Definition Of

A brief account of the Method of Coherent Structures (MCS) is presented using a plane-wave basis to define a quantum field. It is also demonstrated that the form of the quantum field equations, obtained by MCS, although highly nonlinear for many-body systems with two-body interactions, is independent of the basis of states used for the definition of the field.

The definition of the velocity field in many body systems

1969 ◽  
Vol 29 (10) ◽  
pp. 610-611 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.B. Varga ◽  
S.G. Eckstein
Keyword(s):  
Velocity Field ◽  
Many Body ◽  
Many Body Systems ◽  
Definition Of

scholarly journals Coexistence of Different Scaling Laws for the Entanglement Entropy in a Periodically Driven System

Proceedings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Tony J. G. Apollaro ◽  
Salvatore Lorenzo
Keyword(s):  
Ground State ◽  
Scaling Laws ◽  
Entanglement Entropy ◽  
Finite Size ◽  
Simultaneous Occurrence ◽  
Many Body ◽  
Periodically Driven ◽  
Quantum Ising Model ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Many Body Systems

The out-of-equilibrium dynamics of many body systems has recently received a burst of interest, also due to experimental implementations. The dynamics of observables, such as magnetization and susceptibilities, and quantum information related quantities, such as concurrence and entanglement entropy, have been investigated under different protocols bringing the system out of equilibrium. In this paper we focus on the entanglement entropy dynamics under a sinusoidal drive of the tranverse magnetic field in the 1D quantum Ising model. We find that the area and the volume law of the entanglement entropy coexist under periodic drive for an initial non-critical ground state. Furthermore, starting from a critical ground state, the entanglement entropy exhibits finite size scaling even under such a periodic drive. This critical-like behaviour of the out-of-equilibrium driven state can persist for arbitrarily long time, provided that the entanglement entropy is evaluated on increasingly subsytem sizes, whereas for smaller sizes a volume law holds. Finally, we give an interpretation of the simultaneous occurrence of critical and non-critical behaviour in terms of the propagation of Floquet quasi-particles.

scholarly journals Coexistence of Different Scaling Laws for the Entanglement Entropy in a Periodically Driven System

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony J. G. Apollaro ◽  
Salvatore Lorenzo
Keyword(s):  
Ground State ◽  
Scaling Laws ◽  
Entanglement Entropy ◽  
Finite Size ◽  
Simultaneous Occurrence ◽  
Many Body ◽  
Periodically Driven ◽  
Quantum Ising Model ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Many Body Systems

The out-of-equilibrium dynamics of many body systems has recently received a burst of interest, also due to experimental implementations. The dynamics of both observables, such as magnetization and susceptibilities, and quantum information related quantities, such as concurrence and entanglement entropy, have been investigated under different protocols bringing the system out of equilibrium. In this paper we focus on the entanglement entropy dynamics under a sinusoidal drive of the tranverse magnetic field in the 1D quantum Ising model. We find that the area and the volume law of the entanglement entropy coexist under periodic drive for an initial non-critical ground state. Furthermore, starting from a critical ground state, the entanglement entropy exhibits finite size scaling even under such a periodic drive. This critical-like behaviour of the out-of-equilibrium driven state can persist for arbitrarily long time, provided that the entanglement entropy is evaluated on increasingly subsytem sizes, whereas for smaller sizes a volume law holds. Finally, we give an interpretation of the simultaneous occurrence of critical and non-critical behaviour in terms of the propagation of Floquet quasi-particles.

scholarly journals Page curve from non-Markovianity

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaixiang Su ◽  
Pengfei Zhang ◽  
Hui Zhai
Keyword(s):  
Many Body ◽  
Thermal Entropy ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Environment Temperature ◽  
Exactly Solvable ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Kitaev Model ◽  
Many Body Systems ◽  
Near Future ◽  
System Entropy

Abstract In this paper, we use the exactly solvable Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model to address the issue of entropy dynamics when an interacting quantum system is coupled to a non-Markovian environment. We find that at the initial stage, the entropy always increases linearly matching the Markovian result. When the system thermalizes with the environment at a sufficiently long time, if the environment temperature is low and the coupling between system and environment is weak, then the total thermal entropy is low and the entanglement between system and environment is also weak, which yields a small system entropy in the long-time steady state. This manifestation of non-Markovian effects of the environment forces the entropy to decrease in the later stage, which yields the Page curve for the entropy dynamics. We argue that this physical scenario revealed by the exact solution of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model is universally applicable for general chaotic quantum many-body systems and can be verified experimentally in near future.

scholarly journals Euler-scale dynamical correlations in integrable systems with fluid motion

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederik Skovbo Møller ◽  
Gabriele Perfetto ◽  
Benjamin Doyon ◽  
Jörg Schmiedmayer
Keyword(s):  
Iterative Scheme ◽  
Scaling Limit ◽  
Fluid Motion ◽  
Many Body ◽  
Fluctuation Dissipation ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Interacting Systems ◽  
Point Correlation ◽  
Many Body Systems ◽  
Scale Limit

We devise an iterative scheme for numerically calculating dynamical two-point correlation functions in integrable many-body systems, in the Eulerian scaling limit. Expressions for these were originally derived in Ref. [1] by combining the fluctuation-dissipation principle with generalized hydrodynamics. Crucially, the scheme is able to address non-stationary, inhomogeneous situations, when motion occurs at the Euler-scale of hydrodynamics. In such situations, in interacting systems, the simple correlations due to fluid modes propagating with the flow receive subtle corrections, which we test. Using our scheme, we study the spreading of correlations in several integrable models from inhomogeneous initial states. For the classical hard-rod model we compare our results with Monte-Carlo simulations and observe excellent agreement at long time-scales, thus providing the first demonstration of validity for the expressions derived in Ref. [1]. We also observe the onset of the Euler-scale limit for the dynamical correlations.

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