We study the real-time evolution of SU($2$) Yang-Mills theory in a $(3+1)$ dimensional small lattice system after interaction quench. We numerically solve the Schr{ \"o}dinger equation with the Kogut-Susskind Hamiltonian in the physical Hilbert space obtained by solving Gauss law constraints. We observe the thermalization of a Wilson loop to the canonical state; the relaxation time is insensitive to the coupling strength, and estimated as $\tau_{ \rm eq}\sim 2\pi/T$ with temperatures $T$ at steady states. We also compute the vacuum persistence probability (the Loschmidt echo) to understand the relaxation from the dynamics of the wave function.
Categories: hep-lat cond-mat.quant-gas hep-th quant-ph