Unitary dynamics of strongly interacting Bose gases with the time-dependent variational Monte Carlo method in continuous space

G Carleo 1 Lorenzo Cevolani 2 Laurent Sanchez-Palencia 3, 2 Markus Holzmann 4, 5
1 ITP - Institute for Theoretical Physics [ETH Zürich]
2 Laboratoire Charles Fabry / Optique atomique
LCF - Laboratoire Charles Fabry
3 CPHT - Centre de Physique Théorique [Palaiseau]
4 LPM2C - Laboratoire de physique et modélisation des milieux condensés
5 ILL - Institut Laue-Langevin
Abstract : We introduce the time-dependent variational Monte Carlo method for continuous-space Bose gases. Our approach is based on the systematic expansion of the many-body wave function in terms of multibody correlations and is essentially exact up to adaptive truncation. The method is benchmarked by comparison to an exact Bethe ansatz or existing numerical results for the integrable Lieb-Liniger model. We first show that the many-body wave function achieves high precision for ground-state properties, including energy and first-order as well as second-order correlation functions. Then, we study the out-of-equilibrium, unitary dynamics induced by a quantum quench in the interaction strength. Our time-dependent variational Monte Carlo results are benchmarked by comparison to exact Bethe ansatz results available for a small number of particles, and are also compared to quench action results available for noninteracting initial states. Moreover, our approach allows us to study large particle numbers and general quench protocols, previously inaccessible beyond the mean-field level. Our results suggest that it is possible to find correlated initial states for which the long-term dynamics of local density fluctuations is close to the predictions of a simple Boltzmann ensemble.
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G Carleo, Lorenzo Cevolani, Laurent Sanchez-Palencia, Markus Holzmann. Unitary dynamics of strongly interacting Bose gases with the time-dependent variational Monte Carlo method in continuous space. Physical Review X, American Physical Society, 2017, 7, pp.031026. ⟨hal-01580758⟩

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