Non-analytic behavior of the Loschmidt echo in XXZ spin chains: Exact results

We address the computation of the Loschmidt echo in interacting integrable spin chains after a quantum quench. We focus on the massless regime of the XXZ spin-1/2 chain and present exact results for the dynamical free energy (Loschmidt echo per site) for a special class of integrable initial states....

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Main Authors: Lorenzo Piroli, Balázs Pozsgay, Eric Vernier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-08-01
Series:Nuclear Physics B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S055032131830172X