Bipartite Fidelity and Loschmidt Echo of Bosonic Conformal Interface

Abstract

We study the quantum quench problem for a class of bosonic conformal interfaces by computing the Loschmidt echo and the bipartite fidelity. The quench can be viewed as a sudden change of boundary conditions parameterized by $\theta$ when connecting two one-dimensional critical systems. They are classified by $S(\theta )$ matrices associated with the current scattering processes on the interface. The resulting Loschmidt echo of the quench has long time algebraic decay $t^{-\alpha }$, whose exponent also appears in the finite size bipartite fidelity as $L^{-\frac{\alpha }{2}}$. We perform analytic and numerical calculations of the exponent $\alpha$, and find that it has a quadratic dependence on the change of $\theta$ if the prior and post quench boundary conditions are of the same type of $S$, while remaining $\frac{1}{4}$ otherwise. Possible physical realizations of these interfaces include, for instance, connecting different quantum wires (Luttinger liquids), quench of the topological phase edge states, etc. and the exponent can be detected in a X-ray edge singularity type experiment.

v1: 18 pages, 12 figures v2: more detailed conformal mapping analysis, clarification on the corrections in the free energy, appendices reordered

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