Aging dynamics in quenched noisy long-range quantum Ising models

TL;DR

This paper investigates the aging dynamics of a noisy long-range quantum Ising model, revealing a non-equilibrium fixed point with critical scaling behavior during relaxation to an infinite-temperature state.

Contribution

It introduces an analytical framework for understanding aging and critical scaling in a noisy long-range quantum Ising model, identifying a non-equilibrium fixed point.

Findings

Aging behavior observed at intermediate times.

Critical scaling regime consistent with model A universality class.

Analytical derivation of effective action including noise effects.

Abstract

We consider the $d$-dimensional transverse-field Ising model with power-law interactions $J/r^{d+\sigma}$ in the presence of a noisy longitudinal field with zero average. We study the longitudinal-magnetization dynamics of an initial paramagnetic state after a sudden switch-on of both the interactions and the noisy field. While the system eventually relaxes to an infinite-temperature state with vanishing magnetization correlations, we find that two-time correlation functions show aging at intermediate times. Moreover, for times shorter than the inverse noise strength $\kappa$ and distances longer than $a(J/\kappa)^{2/\sigma}$ with $a$ being the lattice spacing, we find a critical scaling regime of correlation and response functions consistent with the model A dynamical universality class with an initial-slip exponent $\theta=1$ and dynamical critical exponent $z=\sigma/2$. We obtain our results analytically by deriving an effective action for the magnetization field including the noise in a non-perturbative way. The above scaling regime is governed by a non-equilibrium fixed point dominated by the noise fluctuations.