Non-equilibrium variational cluster perturbation theory: quench dynamics of the quantum Ising model

Abstract

We introduce a variational implementation of cluster perturbation theory (CPT) to address the dynamics of spin systems driven out of equilibrium. We benchmark the method with the quantum Ising model subject to a sudden quench of the transverse magnetic field across the transition or within a phase. We treat both the one-dimensional case, for which an exact solution is available, as well the two-dimensional one, for which has to resort to numerical results. Comparison with exact results shows that the approach provides a quite accurate description of the real-time dynamics up to a characteristic time scale $\tau$ that increses with the size of the cluster used for CPT. In addition, and not surprisingly $\tau$ is small for quenches across the equilibrium phase transition, but can be quite larger for quenches within the ordered or disordered phases.

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