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Ballistic spin transport in a periodically driven integrable quantum system

Statistical Mechanics 2019-04-24 v2

Abstract

We demonstrate ballistic spin transport of an integrable unitary quantum circuit, which can be understood either as a paradigm of an integrable periodically driven (Floquet) spin chain, or as a Trotterized anisotropic (XXZXXZ) Heisenberg spin-1/2 model. We construct an analytic family of quasi-local conservation laws that break the spin-reversal symmetry and compute a lower bound on the spin Drude weight which is found to be a fractal function of the anisotropy parameter. Extensive numerical simulations of spin transport suggest that this fractal lower bound is in fact tight.

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@article{arxiv.1901.05398,
  title  = {Ballistic spin transport in a periodically driven integrable quantum system},
  author = {Marko Ljubotina and Lenart Zadnik and Tomaž Prosen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.05398},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

5 + 9 pages, 5 + 2 figures

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