Prethermalization and localization in quantum spin chains
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
| Tác giả chính: | |
|---|---|
| Tác giả khác: | |
| Định dạng: | Luận văn |
| Ngôn ngữ: | eng |
| Được phát hành: |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2019
|
| Những chủ đề: | |
| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/121659 |
| _version_ | 1826205315382640640 |
|---|---|
| author | Peng, Pai(Scientist in electrical engineering and computer science)Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
| author2 | Paola Cappellaro. |
| author_facet | Paola Cappellaro. Peng, Pai(Scientist in electrical engineering and computer science)Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
| author_sort | Peng, Pai(Scientist in electrical engineering and computer science)Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
| collection | MIT |
| description | This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. |
| first_indexed | 2024-09-23T13:11:05Z |
| format | Thesis |
| id | mit-1721.1/121659 |
| institution | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| language | eng |
| last_indexed | 2024-09-23T13:11:05Z |
| publishDate | 2019 |
| publisher | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| record_format | dspace |
| spelling | mit-1721.1/1216592022-12-08T17:05:25Z Prethermalization and localization in quantum spin chains Peng, Pai(Scientist in electrical engineering and computer science)Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Paola Cappellaro. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2019 Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-98). How can a quantum many-body system escape the fate of thermalization is of importance to both fundamental study of quantum statistical physics and applications in quantum devices. Here we develop novel experimental and computational tools to address this question. First, novel control techniques are introduced to investigate prethermalization, a process where a quantum system fails to thermalize on a practical timescale. Prethermalization is demonstrated by measuring out-of-time ordered (OTO) correlations in nuclear spin systems with magnetic resonance techniques. Hamiltonian engineering enables tuning the strength of spin-spin interactions and of a transverse magnetic field in a spin chain system, as well as to invert the Hamiltonian sign to reveal OTO correlations. The experiments reveal that at high fields an emergent conserved quantity arises due to prethermalization, and the OTO commutator involving such prethermal conserved quantity saturates after a short time. These results not only introduce a new protocol to measure out-of-time ordered correlations, but also provide new insights in the study of prethermalization. Second, the role of localization in avoiding thermalization is analyzed with a novel computational method. Introducing a novel, non-perturbative approach, a complete set of local integrals of motion (LIOMs) in many-body localization systems can be computed efficiently. By maximizing the overlap between LIOMs and physical spin operators in real space, the set of LIOMs satisfies the desired exponential decay of weight of LIOMs in real space. This allows comparing localization lengths extracted from the LIOM weights, their interactions, and dephasing dynamics, which reveals interesting aspects of many-body localization. This scheme is immune to accidental resonances and can be applied even at the phase transition point, providing a novel tool to study the microscopic features of the phenomenological model of many-body localization. The results presented here provide insight into two many-body mechanisms for avoiding thermalization and pave the way for further exploration to unravel the dynamics of complex quantum spin systems. by Pai Peng. S.M. S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 2019-07-15T20:31:38Z 2019-07-15T20:31:38Z 2019 2019 Thesis https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/121659 1102051156 eng MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 98 pages application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Peng, Pai(Scientist in electrical engineering and computer science)Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prethermalization and localization in quantum spin chains |
| title | Prethermalization and localization in quantum spin chains |
| title_full | Prethermalization and localization in quantum spin chains |
| title_fullStr | Prethermalization and localization in quantum spin chains |
| title_full_unstemmed | Prethermalization and localization in quantum spin chains |
| title_short | Prethermalization and localization in quantum spin chains |
| title_sort | prethermalization and localization in quantum spin chains |
| topic | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/121659 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT pengpaiscientistinelectricalengineeringandcomputersciencemassachusettsinstituteoftechnology prethermalizationandlocalizationinquantumspinchains |