Abstract
The collective and purely relaxational dynamics of quantum many-body systems after a quench at temperature T = 0, from a disordered state to various phases is studied through the exact solution of the quantum Langevin equation of the spherical and the O(n)-model in the limit n → ∞. The stationary state of the quantum dynamics is shown to be a non-equilibrium state. The quantum spherical and the quantum O(n)-model for n → ∞ are in the same dynamical universality class. The long-time behaviour of single-time and two-time correlation and response functions is analysed and the universal exponents which characterise quantum coarsening and quantum ageing are derived. The importance of the non-Markovian long-time memory of the quantum noise is elucidated by comparing it with an effective Markovian noise having the same scaling behaviour and with the case of non-equilibrium classical dynamics.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 103105 |
| Number of pages | 63 |
| Journal | Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment |
| Volume | 2021 |
| Issue number | 10 |
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| Publication status | Published - 29 Oct 2021 |
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Keywords
- Quantum criticality
- Quantum dissipative systems
- Quantum thermalization
- Thermalization
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
- Statistics and Probability
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty