Generalized hydrodynamics and non-equilibrium steady states in integrable many-body quantum systems

ORAL

Abstract

The long-time dynamics of thermalizing many-body quantum systems can typically be described in terms of a conventional hydrodynamics picture that results from the decay of all but a few slow modes associated with standard conservation laws (such as particle number, energy, or momentum). However, hydrodynamics is expected to fail for integrable systems that are characterized by an infinite number of conservation laws, leading to unconventional transport properties and to complex non-equilibrium states beyond the traditional dogma of statistical mechanics. In this talk, I will describe recent attempts to understand such stationary states far from equilibrium using a generalized hydrodynamics picture. I will discuss the consistency of ``Bethe--Boltzmann'' kinetic equations with linear response Drude weights and with density-matrix renormalization group calculations.

Authors

  • Romain Vasseur

    UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley & Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

  • Vir Bulchandani

    University of California, Berkeley

  • Christoph Karrasch

    FU Berlin

  • Joel E. Moore

    Univ. of California, Berkeley and LBNL, UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Univ of California - Berkeley and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,