Diverging equilibration times in long-range quantum spin models

Abstract

The approach to equilibrium is studied for long-range quantum Ising models where the interaction strength decays like r^{-α} at large distances r with an exponent $\alpha$ not exceeding the lattice dimension. For a large class of observables and initial states, the time evolution of expectation values can be calculated. We prove analytically that, at a given instant of time t and for sufficiently large system size N, the expectation value of some observable <A>(t) will practically be unchanged from its initial value <A>(0). This finding implies that, for large enough N, equilibration effectively occurs on a time scale beyond the experimentally accessible one and will not be observed in practice.

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