Translation symmetry restoration in integrable systems: the noninteracting case

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14555v1
• Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 14:11:31 GMT
• Title: Translation symmetry restoration in integrable systems: the noninteracting case
• Authors: Molly Gibbins, Adam Smith, Bruno Bertini,
• Abstract summary: We study translation symmetry restoration in integrable systems.<n>In particular, we consider non-interacting spinless fermions on the lattice prepared in non-equilibrium states invariant under $nu>1$ lattice shifts.<n>We show that, differently from random unitary circuits where symmetry restoration occurs abruptly for times proportional to the subsystem size, here symmetry is restored smoothly and over timescales of the order of the subsystem size squared.
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• Abstract: The study of symmetry restoration has recently emerged as a fruitful means to extract high-level information on the relaxation of quantum many-body systems. This revealed, for instance, the surprising 'quantum Mpemba effect' that occurs when a symmetry is restored more rapidly when the initial configuration is less symmetric. While the restoration of internal symmetries has been investigated intensively, however, the one of spatial symmetries has only been considered recently in the context of random unitary circuits. Here we present a complementary study of translation symmetry restoration in integrable systems. Specifically, we consider non-interacting spinless fermions on the lattice prepared in non-equilibrium states invariant only under $\nu>1$ lattice shifts and follow the restoration of one-site shift invariance. We do so by measuring the Frobenius distance between the state on a subsystem, and its symmetrised counterpart. We compute the latter exactly, using standard Gaussian methods, and formulate a quasiparticle picture -- involving multiplets of $\nu$ correlated quasiparticles -- to describe analytically its asymptotic behaviour. We show that, differently from random unitary circuits where symmetry restoration occurs abruptly for times proportional to the subsystem size, here symmetry is restored smoothly and over timescales of the order of the subsystem size squared. Interestingly, we also show that, in contrast to the case of continuous internal symmetries, the quasiparticle picture does not provide a quantitative description of discrete translation symmetry restoration and that the latter process goes beyond the hydrodynamic description. Our results can directly be extended to higher dimensions.

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