Emergent conservation laws and nonthermal states in the mixed-field Ising model
Jonathan Wurtz, Anatoli Polkovnikov
Abstract
This paper presents a method of computing approximate conservation laws and eigenstates of integrability-broken models using the concept of adiabatic continuation. Given some Hamiltonian, eigenstates and conserved operators may be computed by using those of a simple Hamiltonian close by in parameter space, dressed by some unitary rotation. However, most adiabatic continuation analyses only use this unitary implicitly. In this work, approximate adiabatic gauge potentials are used to construct a state dressing using variational methods, to compute eigenstates via a rotated truncated spectrum approximation. These methods allow construction of both low- and high-energy approximate nonthermal eigenstates, as well as quasilocal almost-conserved operators, in models where integrability may be nonperturbatively broken. These concepts will be demonstrated in the mixed-field Ising model.