Quantum Correlations in Field Theory and Integrable Systems
arXiv:1302.5836
Abstract
In this PhD thesis we investigate some properties of one-dimensional quantum systems, focusing on two important aspects of integrable models: Their entanglement properties at equilibrium and their dynamical correlators after a quantum quench. The first part of the thesis will therefore be devoted to the study of the entanglement entropy in one-dimensional integrable systems, with a special focus on the XYZ spin-1/2 chain, which, in addition to being integrable, is also an interacting theory with non perturbative solutions. We derive its bipartite Renyi entropies in the thermodynamic limit and its behaviour in different phases and for different values of the mass-gap is analysed, both analytically and numerically. In particular it is worth mentioning that the numerical analysis of the entropies of the XYZ model presented in this dissertation has never been published in literature. In the second part of the thesis we study the dynamics of correlators after a quantum quench, preparing the system in a squeezed coherent initial state. The emphasis will be on the Transverse Field Ising Chain and the O(3) non-linear sigma model, the latter studied by means of the semi-classical theory, the former by a form-factor approach. Moreover in the last chapter we outline a general result about the dynamics of correlation functions of local observables after a quantum quench. In particular we show that if there are not long-range interactions in the final Hamiltonian, then the dynamics of the model at long times (non equal- time correlations) is described by the same statistical ensemble that describes its statical properties (equal-time correlations). For the Transverse Field Ising Chain this result means that its dynamics is described by a Generalized Gibbs Ensemble.
PhD thesis, 176 pages. v2: References added
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