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From dissipationless to normal diffusion in easy-axis Heisenberg spin chain

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2022-12-06 v2

Abstract

The anomalous spin diffusion of the integrable easy-axis Heisenberg chain originates in the ballistic transport of symmetry sectors with nonzero magnetization. Ballistic transport is replaced by normal dissipative transport in all magnetization sectors upon introducing the integrability-breaking perturbations, including external driving. Such behavior implies that the diffusion constant obtained for the integrable model is relevant for the spread of spin excitations but not for the spin conductivity. We present numerical results for closed systems and driven open systems, indicating that the diffusion constant shows a discontinuous variation as the function of perturbation strength.

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@article{arxiv.2205.11891,
  title  = {From dissipationless to normal diffusion in easy-axis Heisenberg spin chain},
  author = {P. Prelovšek and S. Nandy and Z. Lenarčič and M. Mierzejewski and J. Herbrych},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.11891},
  year   = {2022}
}
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