Driven quantum spin chain in the presence of noise: Anti-Kibble-Zurek behavior

Abstract

We study defect generation in a quantum XY-spin chain arising due to the linear drive of the many-body Hamiltonian in the presence of a time-dependent fast Gaussian noise. The main objective of this work is to quantify analytically the effects of noise on the defect density production. In the absence of noise, it is well known that in the slow sweep regime, the defect density follows the Kibble-Zurek (KZ) scaling behavior with respect to the sweep speed. We consider time-dependent fast Gaussian noise in the anisotropy of the spin-coupling term [${\gamma }_0=(J_1-J_2)/(J_1+J_2)$] and show via analytical calculations that the defect density exhibits anti-Kibble-Zurek (AKZ) scaling behavior in the slow sweep regime. In the limit of large chain length and long time, we calculate the entropy and magnetization density of the final decohered state and show that their scaling behavior is consistent with the AKZ picture in the slow sweep regime. We have also numerically calculated the sub-lattice spin correlators for finite separation by evaluating the Toeplitz determinants and find results consistent with the KZ picture in the absence of noise, while in the presence of noise and slow sweep speeds the correlators exhibit the AKZ behavior. Furthermore, by considering the large $n$-separation asymptotes of the Toeplitz determinants, we further quantify the effect of the noise on the spin-spin correlators in the final decohered state. We show that while the correlation length of the sub-lattice correlator scales according to the AKZ behavior, we obtain different scaling for the magnetization correlators.

11 pages, 10 figures

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