Dynamical potentials for non-equilibrium quantum many-body phases
arXiv:1710.09388 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.97.205143
Abstract
Out of equilibrium phases of matter exhibiting order in individual eigenstates, such as many-body localised spin glasses and discrete time crystals, can be characterised by inherently dynamical quantities such as spatiotemporal correlation functions. In this work, we introduce dynamical potentials which act as generating functions for such correlations and capture eigenstate phases and order. These potentials show formal similarities to their equilibrium counterparts, namely thermodynamic potentials. We provide three representative examples: a disordered, many-body localised XXZ chain showing many-body localisation, a disordered Ising chain exhibiting spin-glass order and its periodically-driven cousin exhibiting time-crystalline order.
arXiv comment4+epsilon pages, 4 figures + supplementary material
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