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Our perception of the natural world is significantly shaped by the properties of the detection process considered. One crucial aspect is the timescale of the probing mechanism: If this is larger than the typical timescales of the phenomenon under investigation, only averaged information will be gained.
I will illustrate the importance of this aspect for the comparison of experimental observations and theoretical calculations of correlated quantum materials, by hands of an ab-initio+dynamical mean-field study [1] of the on-site magnetic fluctuations in several Fe-bases pnictides and chalcogenides. In this respect, I will also highlight the pivotal role played by vertex corrections in driving the slowing-down of the temporal magnetic fluctuations, as it occurs, e.g., in the proximity of Mott-Hubbard/Hund's-Mott metal-to-insulator transitions and of quantum critical points.
Further, I will examine the situations in which the information encoded in the dynamical correlation functions does not completely vanish even in the infinite-time limit, by hands [2] of exact-diagonalization and dynamical mean-field calculations of Hubbard rings and of the Hubbard model, respectively. This analysis will illustrate how to link the asymptotic long-time response of correlated electrons to intrinsic features of the underlying (exact) many-particle energy spectrum, as well as, perspectively, to the entropy of the system under consideration.
[1] C. Watzenböck, M. Edelmann, D. Springer, G. Sangiovanni, & A Toschi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 086402 (2020).
[2] C. Watzenböck, M. Fellinger, K. Held, & A. Toschi, SciPost Physics 12, 184 (2022); E. Moghadas, et al., unpublished.
