Spatiotemporal Quenches in Long-Range Hamiltonians

Abstract

Spatiotemporal quenches are efficient at preparing ground states of critical Hamiltonians that have emergent low-energy descriptions with Lorentz invariance. The critical transverse field Ising model with nearest neighbor interactions, for instance, maps to free fermions with a relativistic low energy dispersion. However, spin models realized in artificial quantum simulators based on neutral Rydberg atoms, or trapped ions, generically exhibit long range power-law decay of interactions with $J(r)\sim 1/r^{\alpha }$ for a wide range of $\alpha$. In this work, we study the fate of spatiotemporal quenches in these models with a fixed velocity $v$ for the propagation of the quench front, using the numerical time-dependent variational principle. For $\alpha \gtrsim 3$, where the critical theory is suggested to have a dynamical critical exponent $z=1$, our simulations show that optimal cooling is achieved when the front velocity $v$ approaches $c$, the effective speed of excitations in the critical model. The energy density is inhomogeneously distributed in space, with prominent hot regions populated by excitations co-propagating with the quench front, and cold regions populated by counter-propagating excitations. Lowering $\alpha$ largely blurs the boundaries between these regions. For $\alpha <3$, we find that the Doppler cooling effect disappears, as expected from renormalization group results for the critical model which suggest a dispersion $\omega \sim q^z$ with $z<1$. Instead, we show that excitations are controlled by two relevant length scales whose ratio is related to that of the front velocity to a threshold velocity that ultimately determines the adiabaticity of the quench.

arXiv comment18 pages, 11 figures, 3 appendices

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