The Response of Glassy Systems to Random Perturbations: A Bridge Between Equilibrium and Off-Equilibrium

We discuss the response of aging systems with short-range interactions to a class of random perturbations. Although these systems are out of equilibrium, the limit value of the free energy at long times is equal to the equilibrium free energy. By exploiting this fact, we define a new order parameter function, and we relate it to the ratio between response and fluctuation, which is in principle measurable in an aging experiment. For a class of systems possessing stochastic stability, we show that this new order parameter function is intimately related to the static order parameter function, describing the distribution of overlaps between clustering states. The same method is applied to investigate the geometrical organization of pure states. We show that the ultrametric organization in the dynamics implies static ultrametricity, and we relate these properties to static separability, i.e., the property that the measure of the overlap between pure states is essentially unique. Our results, especially relevant for spin glasses, pave the way to an experimental determination of the order parameter function.     

Spin waves and static susceptibility in the weakly doped t-J model

We investigate the spin dynamics in weakly doped high-temperature superconductors. The system is described by the two-dimensional t-J model. Our focus is on the interaction between mobile holes and spin waves. The calculations are based on a recently introduced cumulant method for computing the ground state energy of correlated electronic systems. Contrary to previous works using dynamical quantities like correlation functions or spectral densities our approach contains a static view to the system. This new method treats spin and hole dynamics on the same basis and allows for the calculation of static and dynamical quantities. We present results for spin-wave energies and transverse static susceptibilities for small hole concentrations and various values of t/J. We find a strong renor-malization of the spin-wave energies due to the spin-hole interaction. In agreement with neutron scattering experiments the spin-wave velocity vanishes at a critical hole density of a few percent which is equivalent to the instability of the antiferromagnetic order.     

Predicting spinor condensate dynamics from simple principles

We study the spin dynamics of quasi-one-dimensional F=1 condensates both at zero and finite temperatures for arbitrary initial spin configurations. The rich dynamical evolution exhibited by these nonlinear systems is explained by surprisingly simple principles: minimization of energy at zero temperature and maximization of entropy at high temperature. Our analytical results for the homogeneous case are corroborated by numerical simulations for confined condensates in a wide variety of initial conditions. These predictions compare qualitatively well with recent experimental observations and can, therefore, serve as a guidance for ongoing experiments.     

A review of the dynamical susceptibility in different complex systems

The dynamical susceptibility has been introduced to characterize the dynamical heterogeneities in glass forming liquids. We have used it as a tool to investigate the slow dynamics of other disordered systems such as gels, granular media and spin glasses. We review here the results obtained via numerical simulations of different model systems. The comparative study of the behaviour of the dynamical susceptibility sheds some light on the significant differences in the complex slow dynamics of glasses, spin glasses, granular media, irreversible gels, and colloidal gels.     

Dynamical Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interaction in KCuF3

The spin dynamics of the prototypical quasi-one-dimensional antiferromagnetic Heisenberg spin S=1/2 chain KCuF3 is investigated by electron spin resonance spectroscopy. Our analysis shows that the peculiarities of the spin dynamics require a new dynamical form of the antisymmetric anisotropic spin-spin interaction. This dynamical Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interaction is related to strong oscillations of the bridging fluorine ions perpendicular to the crystallographic c axis. This new mechanism allows us to resolve consistently the controversies in observation of the magnetic and structural properties of this orbitally ordered perovskite compound.     

Quantum spin dynamics of mode-squeezed Luttinger liquids in two-component atomic gases

We report on the observation of many-body spin dynamics of interacting, one-dimensional (1D) ultracold bosonic gases with two spin states. By controlling the nonlinear atomic interactions close to a Feshbach resonance we are able to induce a phase diffusive many-body spin dynamics of the relative phase between the two components. We monitor this dynamical evolution by Ramsey interferometry, supplemented by a novel, many-body echo technique, which unveils the role of quantum fluctuations in 1D. We find that the time evolution of the system is well described by a Luttinger liquid initially prepared in a multimode squeezed state. Our approach allows us to probe the nonequilibrium evolution of one-dimensional many-body quantum systems.     

Semi-Classical Dynamics in Quantum Spin Systems

We consider two limiting regimes, the large-spin and the mean-field limit, for the dynamical evolution of quantum spin systems. We prove that, in these limits, the time evolution of a class of quantum spin systems is determined by a corresponding Hamiltonian dynamics of classical spins. This result can be viewed as a Egorov-type theorem. We extend our results to the thermodynamic limit of lattice spin systems and continuum domains of infinite size, and we study the time evolution of coherent spin states in these limiting regimes.     

Aging in subdiffusion generated by a deterministic dynamical system

We investigate aging behavior in a simple dynamical system: a nonlinear map which generates subdiffusion deterministically. Asymptotic behaviors of the diffusion process are described using aging continuous time random walks. We show how these processes are described by an aging diffusion equation which is of fractional order. Our work demonstrates that aging behavior can be found in deterministic low dimensional dynamical systems.     

Quantum Correlations and Speed Limit of Central Spin Systems

In this article, single, and two-qubit central spin systems interacting with spin baths are considered and their dynamical properties are discussed. The cases of interacting and non-interacting spin baths are considered and the quantum speed limit (QSL) time of evolution is investigated. The impact of the size of the spin bath on the quantum speed limit for a single qubit central spin model is analyzed. The quantum correlations for (non-)interacting two central spin qubits are estimated and their dynamical behavior with that of QSL time under various conditions are compared. How QSL time could be availed to analyze the dynamics of quantum correlations is shown.     

随机外磁场对一维Blume-Capel模型动力学性质的影响

近几十年来,量子自旋系统的动力学性质引起了人们的广泛关注,随着研究的不断深入,随机自旋系统的性质受到了人们的重视. 利用递推关系式方法研究了高温极限下随机外磁场中自旋s=1的一维Blume-Capel模型的动力学性质, 通过计算自旋自关联函数和相应的谱密度,探讨了外场对系统动力学行为的影响.研究表明,在无晶格场的情况下, 当外场满足双模分布时,系统的动力学性质存在从中心峰值行为到集体模行为的交跨效应.当外场满足Gauss分布, 标准偏差较小时,系统也存在交跨效应;标准偏差足够大时,系统只表现为无序行为. 另外还研究了晶格场对系统动力学性质的影响,发现晶格场的存在减弱了系统的集体模行为.     

A novel approach to the simulation of nitroxide spin label EPR spectra from a single truncated dynamical trajectory

A simple effective method for calculation of EPR spectra from a single truncated dynamical trajectory of spin probe orientations is reported. It is shown that an accurate simulation can be achieved from the small initial fraction of a dynamical trajectory until the point when the autocorrelation function of re-orientational motion of spin label has relaxed. This substantially reduces the amount of time for spectra simulation compared to previous approaches, which require multiple full length trajectories (normally of several microseconds) to achieve the desired resolution of EPR spectra. Our method is applicable to trajectories generated from both Brownian dynamics and molecular dynamics (MD) calculations. Simulations of EPR spectra from Brownian dynamical trajectories under a variety of motional conditions including bi-modal dynamics with different hopping rates between the modes are compared to those performed by conventional method. Since the relatively short timescales of spin label motions are realistically accessible by modern MD computational methods, our approach, for the first time, opens the prospect of the simulation of EPR spectra entirely from MD trajectories of real proteins structures.     

Dynamical precession of spin in the two-dimensional spin-orbit coupled systems

We investigate the spin dynamics in the two-dimensional spin-orbit coupled system subject to an in-plane (x-y plane) constant electric field, which is assumed to be turned on at the moment $t=0$. The equation of spin precession in linear response to the switch-on of the electric field is derived in terms of Heisenberg's equation by the perturbation method up to the first order of the electric field. The dissipative effect, which is responsible for bringing the dynamical response to an asymptotic result, is phenomenologically implemented à la the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation by introducing damping terms upon the equation of spin dynamics. Mediated by the dissipative effect, the resulting spin dynamics asymptotes to a stationary state, where the spin and the momentum-dependent effective magnetic field are aligned again and have nonzero components in the out-of-plane (z) direction. In the linear response regime, the asymptotic response obtained by the dynamical treatment is in full agreement with the stationary response as calculated in the Kubo formula, which is a time-independent approach treating the applied electric field as completely time-independent. Our method provides a new perspective on the connection between the dynamical and stationary responses.     

Static versus dynamic heterogeneities in the D = 3 Edwards-Anderson-Ising spin glass

We numerically study the aging properties of the dynamical heterogeneities in the Ising spin glass. We find that a phase transition takes place during the aging process. Statics-dynamics correspondence implies that systems of finite size in equilibrium have static heterogeneities that obey finite-size scaling, thus signaling an analogous phase transition in the thermodynamical limit. We compute the critical exponents and the transition point in the equilibrium setting, and use them to show that aging in dynamic heterogeneities can be described by a finite-time scaling ansatz, with potential implications for experimental work.     

End of aging in a complex system

Aging phenomena in complex systems have been used as an important tool to investigate the physics of complexity. In particular, aging effects in spin glasses, measured using the thermoremanent magnetization decays, have been instrumental as a probe of complex equilibrium and nonequilibrium dynamics. In this Letter, we show that aging found in spin glass materials has a finite lifetime. After the aging part of the decay has ended, we find a post-aging decay which is apparently logarithmic in nature. This decay is independent of the waiting time and part of the same mechanism that produces aging.     

Factorization Properties in d-Dimensional Spin Glasses. Rigorous Results and Some Perspectives

In this paper we show that d-dimensional Gaussian spin glass models are strongly stochastically stable, fulfill the Ghirlanda-Guerra identities in distribution and the ultrametricity property.     

A Resonance Theory for Open Quantum Systems with Time-Dependent Dynamics

We develop a resonance theory to describe the evolution of open systems with time-dependent dynamics. Our approach is based on piecewise constant Hamiltonians: we represent the evolution on each constant bit using a recently developed dynamical resonance theory, and we piece them together to obtain the total evolution. The initial state corresponding to one time-interval with constant Hamiltonian is the final state of the system corresponding to the interval before. This results in a non-Markovian dynamics. We find a representation of the dynamics in terms of resonance energies and resonance states associated to the Hamiltonians, valid for all times t≥0 and for small (but fixed) interaction strengths. The representation has the form of a path integral over resonances. We present applications to a spin-fermion system, where the energy levels of the spin may undergo rather arbitrary crossings in the course of time. In particular, we find the probability for transition between ground- and excited state at all times.     

Aging without disorder on long time scales

We study the Metropolis dynamics of a simple spin system without disorder, which exhibits glassy dynamics at low temperatures. We use an implementation of the algorithm of Bortz, Kalos and Lebowitz [1]. This method turns out to be very efficient for the study of glassy systems, which get trapped in local minima on many different time scales. We find strong evidence of aging effects at low temperatures. We relate these effects to the distribution function of the trapping times of single configurations.     

Sherrington-Kirkpatric自旋玻璃模型的非平衡态性质

通过动力学蒙特卡罗模拟对Sherrington-Kirkpatric （SK）自旋玻璃模型进行研究. 结果表明,弱场下自旋玻璃的磁化率在转变点非常陡峭,而比热容则呈现比较宽的转变. 同时,也成功地模拟了自旋玻璃体的年龄效应和记忆效应. 通过模拟发现,不同的弛豫时间对系统的能量影响很大,这直接导致了年龄效应和记忆效应;各向同性的SK模型不能给出实验中的交换偏移现象. 关键词： 自旋玻璃 记忆效应 年龄效应 磁化率     

Correlated projection superoperators in relaxation and transport investigations

The time-convolutionless (TCL) projection operator technique allows a systematic analysis of the dynamical properties of open quantum systems. Unfortunately, using the standard projector to investigate the decay to equilibrium fails to describe the dynamics of a small system coupled to a finite environment correctly. However, a recently introduced correlated projection operator leads to the appropriate dynamical behavior and shows a reasonable good agreement with the exact Schr?dinger dynamics. Furthermore, a similar projector can be used to describe the transport through a quantum system. Using the technique in Fourier space allows for a detailed analysis of transport in the context of its length scale dependence as well. Finally, the method is also applicable to realistic systems, e.g., spin models.     

Spin glass dynamics in RKKY interacting disordered magnetic system

Using the dynamical Monte Carlo method we investigate the nonequilibrium effects in RKKY-coupling disordered spin glass. By the simulation we reproduce the well-known aging and memory phenomena and find the energy relaxation at a certain temperature happens only to the corresponding spins, which directly causes the nonequilibrium effects. Combining the master equation and the energy relaxation we analyse these phenomena and explain them from the dynamical perspective.