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Hidden quantum criticality and entanglement in quench dynamics

Sanku Paul1,2,3, Paraj Titum4,3,5, and Mohammad Maghrebi2,3

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Phys. Rev. Research 6, L032003 – Published 3 July, 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.L032003

Abstract

Entanglement exhibits universal behavior near the ground-state critical point where correlations are long ranged and the thermodynamic entropy is vanishing. On the other hand, a quantum quench imparts extensive energy and results in a build up of entropy, hence no critical behavior is expected at long times. In this work, we present a new paradigm in the quench dynamics of integrable spin chains which exhibit a ground-state order-disorder phase transition at a critical line. Specifically, we consider a quench along the critical line which displays a volume-law behavior of the entropy and exponentially decaying correlations; however, we show that quantum criticality is hidden in higher-order correlations and becomes manifest via measures such as the mutual information and logarithmic negativity. Furthermore, we showcase the scale invariance of the Rényi mutual information between disjoint regions as further evidence for genuine critical behavior. We attribute the emergent quantum criticality to the soft mode not getting excited in spite of the quench. Moreover, the results presented here are universal to models whose low-energy or long-wavelength dynamics are well described by a free-fermionic field theory. Our results are amenable to an experimental realization on different quantum simulator platforms, particularly the Rydberg simulators.

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Phys. Rev. Research 6, L032003– Published 3 July, 2024
  • Received 8 March 2022
  • Accepted 11 June 2024
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