A remark on the subleading order in the asymptotics of the nonequilibrium emptiness formation probability

Abstract

We study the asymptotic behavior of the emptiness formation probability for large spin strings in a translation invariant quasifree nonequilibrium steady state of the isotropic XY chain. Besides the overall exponential decay, we prove that, out of equilibrium, the exponent of the subleading power law contribution to the asymptotics is nonvanishing and strictly positive due to the singularities in the density of the steady state.