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Hydrodynamics of quantum entropies in Ising chains with linear dissipation

arXiv:2109.01836 · doi:10.1088/1751-8121/ac48ec

Abstract

We study the dynamics of quantum information and of quantum correlations after a quantum quench, in transverse field Ising chains subject to generic linear dissipation. As we show, in the hydrodynamic limit of long times, large system sizes, and weak dissipation, entropy-related quantities -- such as the von Neumann entropy, the Rényi entropies, and the associated mutual information -- admit a simple description within the so-called quasiparticle picture. Specifically, we analytically derive a hydrodynamic formula, recently conjectured for generic noninteracting systems, which allows us to demonstrate a universal feature of the dynamics of correlations in such dissipative noninteracting system. For any possible dissipation, the mutual information grows up to a time scale that is proportional to the inverse dissipation rate, and then decreases, always vanishing in the long time limit. In passing, we provide analytic formulas describing the time-dependence of arbitrary functions of the fermionic covariance matrix, in the hydrodynamic limit.

33 pages, 9 figures. Invited contribution to the special issue "Hydrodynamics of Low-Dimensional Quantum Systems" of J. Phys. A. Few typos corrected. As published

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