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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 11: Critical phenomena

DY 11.5: Talk

Monday, March 20, 2017, 16:45–17:00, HÜL 186

Dynamical crossovers in prethermal critical states — •Alessio Chiocchetta¹, Andrea Gambassi², Sebastian Diehl¹, and Jamir Marino¹ — ¹University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany — ²International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy

We study the prethermal dynamics of an interacting field theory with a N-component order parameter and O(N) symmetry, suddenly quenched in the vicinity of a dynamical critical point. Depending on the initial conditions, the evolution of the order parameter, as well as of response and correlation functions, can exhibit a temporal crossover between universal dynamical scaling regimes governed, respectively, by a quantum and a classical prethermal fixed point, as well as a crossover from Gaussian to prethermal dynamical scaling. Together with a recent experiment, this suggests that quenches can be used in order to explore the rich variety of dynamical critical points occurring in the non-equilibrium dynamics of a quantum many-body system. We illustrate this fact by using a combination of functional renormalization group techniques and a non-perturbative large-N limit.