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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
卷 112, 期 17, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.171601
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- NSERC Discovery grant
- Government of Canada through Industry Canada
- Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Research Innovation
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
- National Science Foundation [NSF-PHY-1214341, NSF-PHY-0970069]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0970069] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Physics [0970069] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1214341] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
We study the time evolution of a conformal field theory deformed by a relevant operator under a smooth but fast quantum quench which brings it to the conformal point. We argue that when the quench time scale delta t is small compared to the scale set by the relevant coupling, the expectation value of the quenched operator scales universally as delta lambda/delta t(2 Delta-d) where delta lambda is the quench amplitude. This growth is further enhanced by a logarithmic factor in even dimensions. We present explicit results for free scalar and fermionic field theories, supported by an analytic understanding of the leading contribution for fast quenches. Our results suggest that this scaling result, first found in holography, is in fact quite general. Our considerations also show that this limit of fast smooth quenches is quite different from an instantaneous quench from one timeindependent Hamiltonian to another, where the state at the time of the quench serves as an initial condition for subsequent evolution with the final Hamiltonian.
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