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Anomalous nonequilibrium current fluctuations in the Heisenberg model

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2014-10-13 v2 Statistical Mechanics Quantum Physics

Abstract

We study fluctuation properties of a one-dimensional anisotropic Heisenberg model out of equilibrium, focusing in particular on the gapped regime. Within the open-system setting we study large-deviation properties of the spin current. Numerically evaluating the first four current cumulants in a nonequilibrium stationary state at high energies, we find that the first two cumulants scale with the system size in a diffusive way, while the 3rd and the 4th cumulants do not. This means that the model is not an ordinary diffusive spin conductor.

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@article{arxiv.1405.5541,
  title  = {Anomalous nonequilibrium current fluctuations in the Heisenberg model},
  author = {Marko Znidaric},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.5541},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

5 pages, 5 figs; v2.: some additional explanation and one new fig