Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2011-09-12
Scientific Reports 2, 243 (2012)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
Available for Open Access on Nature's website at http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/120206/srep00243/full/srep00243.html (suppl
Scientific paper
10.1038/srep00243
When classical systems fail to explore their entire configurational space, intriguing macroscopic phenomena like aging and glass formation may emerge. Also closed quanto-mechanical systems may stop wandering freely around the whole Hilbert space, even if they are initially prepared into a macroscopically large combination of eigenstates. Here, we report numerical evidences that the dynamics of strongly interacting lattice bosons driven sufficiently far from equilibrium can be trapped into extremely long-lived inhomogeneous metastable states. The slowing down of incoherent density excitations above a threshold energy, much reminiscent of a dynamical arrest on the verge of a glass transition, is identified as the key feature of this phenomenon. We argue that the resulting long-lived inhomogeneities are responsible for the lack of thermalization observed in large systems. Such a rich phenomenology could be experimentally uncovered upon probing the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of conveniently prepared quantum states of trapped cold atoms which we hereby suggest.
Becca Federico
Carleo Giuseppe
Fabrizio Michele
Schiró Marco
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