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Quantum Dynamics from a Domain Wall Initial State, in Real and Imaginary Time

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Strongly Coupled Field Theories for Condensed Matter and Quantum Information Theory

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I review some recent results regarding the time evolution of \(1+1\) inhomogeneous quantum systems. The main focus is on the so-called Domain Wall initial state, a state such that average particle density or spin magnetization can have a maximal discontinuity.

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Acknowledgements

I am grateful to P. Sodano for collecting these proceedings and to J. Dubail and J.-M. Stéphan for many of the ideas and results that are briefly review in this note. I finally thank A. De Luca and M. Collura for joined work in [8].

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Viti, J. (2020). Quantum Dynamics from a Domain Wall Initial State, in Real and Imaginary Time. In: Ferraz, A., Gupta, K., Semenoff, G., Sodano, P. (eds) Strongly Coupled Field Theories for Condensed Matter and Quantum Information Theory. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 239. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35473-2_16

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