Abstract
We examine how the magnetic susceptibility obtained by the quench experiment on isolated quantum systems is related to the isothermal and adiabatic susceptibilities defined in thermodynamics. Under the conditions similar to the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis, together with some additional natural ones, we prove that for translationally invariant systems the quench susceptibility as a function of wave vector is discontinuous at . Moreover, its values at and the limit coincide with the adiabatic and the isothermal susceptibilities, respectively. We give numerical predictions on how these particular behaviors can be observed in experiments on the spin chain with tunable parameters, and how they deviate when the conditions are not fully satisfied.
- Received 6 November 2019
- Accepted 26 February 2020
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.110609
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