Nonequilibrium Probes of Quantum Geometry in Gapless Systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09639v1
• Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 01:02:06 GMT
• Title: Nonequilibrium Probes of Quantum Geometry in Gapless Systems
• Authors: Bastien Lapierre, Per Moosavi, Blagoje Oblak,
• Abstract summary: Much of our understanding of gapless many-body quantum systems stems from their low-energy descriptions as conformal field theories.<n>This is especially true in 1+1 dimensions, where such theories have an infinite-dimensional parameter space induced by their conformal symmetry.<n>We reveal the associated quantum geometry by considering finite systems driven by time-dependent conformal transformations.
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• Abstract: Much of our understanding of gapless many-body quantum systems stems from their low-energy descriptions as conformal field theories. This is especially true in 1+1 dimensions, where such theories have an infinite-dimensional parameter space induced by their conformal symmetry. We reveal the associated quantum geometry by considering finite systems driven by time-dependent conformal transformations. For small deformations, perturbation theory predicts absorption rates and linear responses that are intrinsically related to components of the quantum geometric tensor. For arbitrarily large but adiabatic deformations, we show that periodic drives give rise to nontrivial return amplitudes involving the quantum metric, beyond the familiar leading order that only features a Berry phase. Our field-theoretic findings are universal, comprising general relations between measurable quantities and quantum geometry that only depend on the central charge of the conformal symmetry. This is supported by both analytical results for quantum dynamics under certain Floquet drives, and numerical simulations of gapless lattice models.

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