Title | Confined Quasiparticle Dynamics in Long-Range Interacting Quantum Spin Chains |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2019 |
Authors | F. Liu, R. Lundgren, P. Titum, G. Pagano, J. Zhang, C. Monroe, and |
Journal | Phys. Rev. Lett. |
Volume | 122 |
Pagination | 150601 |
Date Published | APR 16 |
Type of Article | Article |
ISSN | 0031-9007 |
Abstract | We study the quasiparticle excitation and quench dynamics of the one-dimensional transverse-field Ising model with power-law (1/r(alpha)) interactions. We find that long-range interactions give rise to a confining potential, which couples pairs of domain walls (kinks) into bound quasiparticles, analogous to mesonic states in high-energy physics. We show that these quasiparticles have signatures in the dynamics of order parameters following a global quench, and the Fourier spectrum of these order parameters can be exploited as a direct probe of the masses of the confined quasiparticles. We introduce a two-kink model to qualitatively explain the phenomenon of long-range-interaction-induced confinement and to quantitatively predict the masses of the bound quasiparticles. Furthermore, we illustrate that these quasiparticle states can lead to slow thermalization of one-point observables for certain initial states. Our work is readily applicable to current trapped-ion experiments. |
DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.150601 |