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Exact out-of-equilibrium central spin dynamics from integrability

Fioretto, Davide ; Caux, Jean-Sébastien ; Gritsev, Vladimir

In: New Journal of Physics, 2014, vol. 16, no. 4, p. 043024

We consider a Gaudin magnet (central spin model) with a time-dependent exchange couplings. We explicitly show that the Schrödinger equation is analytically solvable in terms of generalized hypergeometric functions for particular choices of the time dependence of the coupling constants. Our method establishes a new link between this system and the $SU\left( 2 \right)$ Wess–Zumino–Witten...

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Non-equilibrium dynamics of Gaudin models

Barmettler, Peter ; Fioretto, Davide ; Gritsev, Vladimir

In: EPL (Europhysics Letters), 2014, vol. 104, no. 1, p. 10004

In classical mechanics the theory of non-linear dynamics provides a detailed framework for the distinction between near-integrable and chaotic systems. Quite in opposition, in quantum many-body theory no generic microscopic principle at the origin of complex dynamics is known. Here we show that the non-equilibrium dynamics of homogeneous Gaudin models can be fully described by underlying...

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Zamolodchikov–Faddeev algebra and quantum quenches in integrable field theories

Sotiriadis, S. ; Fioretto, Davide ; Mussardo, G.

In: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2012, no. 2, p. P02017

We analyze quantum quenches in integrable models and in particular we determine the initial state in the basis of eigenstates of the post-quench Hamiltonian. This leads us to consider the set of transformations of creation and annihilation operators that respect the Zamolodchikov–Faddeev algebra satisfied by integrable models. We establish that the Bogoliubov transformations hold only in the...