Numerical Simulation of Critical Dissipative Non-Equilibrium Quantum Systems with an Absorbing State

Abstract

The simulation of out-of-equilibrium dissipative quantum many body systems is a problem of fundamental interest to a number of fields in physics, ranging from condensed matter to cosmology. For unitary systems, tensor network methods have proved successful and extending these to open systems is a natural avenue for study. In particular, an important question concerns the possibility of approximating the critical dynamics of non-equilibrium systems with tensor networks. Here, we investigate this by performing numerical simulations of a paradigmatic quantum non-equilibrium system with an absorbing state: the quantum contact process. We consider the application of matrix product states and the time-evolving block decimation algorithm to simulate the time-evolution of the quantum contact process at criticality. In the Lindblad formalism, we find that the Heisenberg picture can be used to improve the accuracy of simulations over the Schrödinger approach, which can be understood by considering the evolution of operator-space entanglement. Furthermore, we also consider a quantum trajectories approach, which we find can reproduce the expected universal behaviour of key observables for a significantly longer time than direct simulation of the average state. These improved results provide further evidence that the universality class of the quantum contact process is not directed percolation, which is the class of the classical contact process.

arXiv comment12 pages, 6 figures

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