Quantum quenches in an XXZ spin chain from a spatially inhomogeneous initial state

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Lancaster, Jarrett ^a   Mitra, Aditi ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOSONIZATION APPROACH; CLASSICAL SPIN; DEPHASING; EXACT SOLUTION; GIBBS ENSEMBLE; INHOMOGENEITIES; INITIAL DOMAINS; INITIAL STATE; MEAN FIELD APPROACH; NON-EQUILIBRIUM DYNAMICS; OUT OF EQUILIBRIUM; RAPIDLY QUENCHING; SPATIAL IN-HOMOGENEITY; SPATIALLY INHOMOGENEOUS; SPATIALLY INHOMOGENEOUS STRUCTURES; SPIN CHAINS; SPIN COMPONENTS; SPIN CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; TIME EVOLUTIONS; TWO-POINT; TWO-POINT CORRELATION FUNCTION; WALL PROFILES; XX CHAIN; Z-DIRECTIONS;

MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; QUANTUM THEORY;

SPIN DYNAMICS;

EID: 77954230729     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.061134     Document Type: Article

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