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Crossover from generalized to conventional hydrodynamics in nearly integrable systems under relaxation time approximation

Statistical Mechanics 2026-03-03 v1

Abstract

Upon breaking the integrability, the equations of generalized hydrodynamics (GHD) are supplemented by a Boltzmann collision term. Such terms are typically complicated and stem from a perturbative treatment of integrability-breaking terms in the hamiltonian. In our work, we study a simplified version of the collision operator in a form of relaxation time approximation familiar from kinetic theory. We explicitly compute transport coefficients which characterize the Navier-Stokes (NS) hydrodynamic regime emerging at large space-time scales. We also thoroughly study the crossover between GHD and NS hydrodynamic descriptions, identifying relevant characteristic space-time scales for the transition. In particular, we show how the emergence of NS hydrodynamics is visible in dynamics of conserved and non-conserved charge densities, and in hydrodynamic two-point functions.

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@article{arxiv.2603.02158,
  title  = {Crossover from generalized to conventional hydrodynamics in nearly integrable systems under relaxation time approximation},
  author = {Saikat Santra and Maciej Łebek and Miłosz Panfil},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.02158},
  year   = {2026}
}

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13 pages, 4 figures

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