Quantum quench in the transverse field Ising chain: I. Time evolution of order parameter correlators

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Volumn 2012, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Calabrese, Pasquale ^a   Essler, Fabian H L ^b   Fagotti, Maurizio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

correlation functions; exact results; form factors; integrable quantum field theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864398218     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17425468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2012/07/P07016     Document Type: Article

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