Abstract
We study the entanglement dynamics of a one-dimensional hard-core quantum gas initially confined in a box of size L with saturated density ρ = 1. The gas is suddenly released into a region of size 2L by moving one of the box edges. We show that the analytic prediction for the entanglement entropy obtained from quantum fluctuating hydrodynamics holds quantitatively true even after several reflections of the gas against the box edges. We further investigate the long time limit t/L ≫ 1 where a Floquet picture of the non-equilibrium dynamics emerges and hydrodynamics eventually breaks down.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 375301 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue number | 37 |
| Early online date | 19 Aug 2022 |
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| Publication status | Published - 16 Sept 2022 |
Funder
Funding Information: FA and SS acknowledge support from ERC under Consolidator Grant No. 771536 (NEMO). The authors are thankful to Dragi Karevski, Pasquale Calabrese and Jérôme Dubail for useful discussions and insights on the manuscript. FA acknowledges Nina Javerzat for helpful comments on equation (). SS acknowledges LPCT (Nancy) for the warm hospitality during the early stage of this project. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 IOP Publishing Ltd.
Keywords
- General Physics and Astronomy
- Mathematical Physics
- Modeling and Simulation
- Statistics and Probability
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics