Ground state overlap knows about ultraviolet dynamics: results for the Kondo model

Abstract

We consider a quantum quench from the strongly correlated ground state of the Kondo model to a Fermi sea. We calculate the overlap between the ground states before and after the quench, as well as the Loschmidt echo, that is, the transition amplitude between the initial state and the evolved state at a time $t$ after the quench. The overlap is known to determine the dynamics of the echo at large times. We show in addition that the overlap depends algebraically on the emergent Kondo length with a power law exponent equal to the difference of long and short time contributions that appear in the echo. Our result suggests that there may in general be more information contained in the overlap than previously recognized.

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