Probing quantum many-body dynamics using subsystem Loschmidt echos
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| author | Karch, Simon Bandyopadhyay, Souvik Sun, Zheng-Hang Impertro, Alexander Huh, SeungJung Rodríguez, Irene Prieto Wienand, Julian F. Ketterle, Wolfgang Heyl, Markus Polkovnikov, Anatoli Bloch, Immanuel Aidelsburger, Monika |
| author_facet | Karch, Simon Bandyopadhyay, Souvik Sun, Zheng-Hang Impertro, Alexander Huh, SeungJung Rodríguez, Irene Prieto Wienand, Julian F. Ketterle, Wolfgang Heyl, Markus Polkovnikov, Anatoli Bloch, Immanuel Aidelsburger, Monika |
| contents | The Loschmidt echo - the probability of a quantum many-body system to return to its initial state following a dynamical evolution - generally contains key information about a quantum system, relevant across various scientific fields including quantum chaos, quantum many-body physics, or high-energy physics. However, it is typically exponentially small in system size, posing an outstanding challenge for experiments. Here, we experimentally investigate the subsystem Loschmidt echo, a quasi-local observable that captures key features of the Loschmidt echo while being readily accessible experimentally. Utilizing quantum gas microscopy, we study its short- and long-time dynamics. In the short-time regime, we observe a dynamical quantum phase transition arising from genuine higher-order correlations. In the long-time regime, the subsystem Loschmidt echo allows us to quantitatively determine the effective dimension and structure of the accessible Hilbert space in the thermodynamic limit. Performing these measurements in the ergodic regime and in the presence of emergent kinetic constraints, we provide direct experimental evidence for ergodicity breaking due to fragmentation of the Hilbert space. Our results establish the subsystem Loschmidt echo as a novel and powerful tool that allows paradigmatic studies of both non-equilibrium dynamics and equilibrium thermodynamics of quantum many-body systems, applicable to a broad range of quantum simulation and computing platforms. |
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| spellingShingle | Probing quantum many-body dynamics using subsystem Loschmidt echos Karch, Simon Bandyopadhyay, Souvik Sun, Zheng-Hang Impertro, Alexander Huh, SeungJung Rodríguez, Irene Prieto Wienand, Julian F. Ketterle, Wolfgang Heyl, Markus Polkovnikov, Anatoli Bloch, Immanuel Aidelsburger, Monika Quantum Gases Statistical Mechanics Atomic Physics Quantum Physics The Loschmidt echo - the probability of a quantum many-body system to return to its initial state following a dynamical evolution - generally contains key information about a quantum system, relevant across various scientific fields including quantum chaos, quantum many-body physics, or high-energy physics. However, it is typically exponentially small in system size, posing an outstanding challenge for experiments. Here, we experimentally investigate the subsystem Loschmidt echo, a quasi-local observable that captures key features of the Loschmidt echo while being readily accessible experimentally. Utilizing quantum gas microscopy, we study its short- and long-time dynamics. In the short-time regime, we observe a dynamical quantum phase transition arising from genuine higher-order correlations. In the long-time regime, the subsystem Loschmidt echo allows us to quantitatively determine the effective dimension and structure of the accessible Hilbert space in the thermodynamic limit. Performing these measurements in the ergodic regime and in the presence of emergent kinetic constraints, we provide direct experimental evidence for ergodicity breaking due to fragmentation of the Hilbert space. Our results establish the subsystem Loschmidt echo as a novel and powerful tool that allows paradigmatic studies of both non-equilibrium dynamics and equilibrium thermodynamics of quantum many-body systems, applicable to a broad range of quantum simulation and computing platforms. |
| title | Probing quantum many-body dynamics using subsystem Loschmidt echos |
| topic | Quantum Gases Statistical Mechanics Atomic Physics Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16995 |