Long-term Oscillations and Universal Behavior in Pulsed Electric Fields

Abstract

We thoroughly analyze the response of the zero-temperature N=2 super Yang-Mills theory to time-dependent electric field quenches via holography. We specially focus on transient pulse-like configurations for the electric field, characterized by some model parameters, such as the maximum value of the electric field $E_0$ and the ramping time $δ_t$ which determines the time interval for switching the electric field on and off. We also compare some of the results with those of tanh-like quenches. The term tanh-like quench is used for a quench that rises from zero to a final finite value during a finite amount of time. Our numerical solutions demonstrate that when the system is subjected to pulse-like electric field quenches, the emerged electric current as a response goes through three stages as time passes. After excitation and rapidly-damping oscillatory stages, it experiences a long-lasting periodic oscillatory region. In fact the effect of the electric pulse remains in the system much longer than the duration of the presence of the electric field itself. It is extremely interesting that, as confirmed by power spectrum diagrams, these oscillations have a unique obvious frequency which is independent of the details of the electric pulse function and its parameters. Moreover, we observe a universal behavior in the adiabatic limit, when the ramping time tends to infinity. In this limit, the early and late time dynamics of the response electric current does not depend on the time dependence of the electric field. In particular, we see that for both pulse-like and tanh-like quenches, the maximum value at the first peak of the oscillations approaches the static value of the current induced by the presence of a static electric field $E_0$. However, the fast quench behavior differs extremely for different kinds of quench functions.