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Interaction-induced asymmetry in infinite-temperature dynamical correlations of hard-core anyons

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2026-04-23 v1 Quantum Gases

Abstract

We study dynamical correlations of interacting hard-core anyons on a one-dimensional lattice at infinite temperature. This is a setting in which the many-body spectrum is independent of the statistical phase θ\theta, while dynamical correlators remain sensitive to θ\theta through nonlocal Jordan-Wigner strings. We compute single-particle Green's functions, spectral functions, and density-density correlators, thereby separating the effects of fractional statistics on one-body coherence from those on density transport in a maximally mixed ensemble. In the noninteracting case V=0V=0, high-temperature averaging leads to inversion-symmetric Green's functions for all θ\theta despite the presence of anyonic strings. Finite nearest-neighbor interactions VV generate, however, a pronounced left-right asymmetry in the Green's functions for 0<θ<π0<\theta<\pi, with the strongest chirality appearing at intermediate couplings VJV\sim J where interactions and hopping compete most effectively. In this regime, the Green's function decays exponentially in time with a statistical-angle-dependent decay rate. At strong coupling, the dynamics crosses over to an atomic-limit regime in which the dependence on θ\theta is reduced. Here the Green's function decays universally as t1t^{-1} and the corresponding spectral function displays a three-band structure. In contrast, density-density correlations are insensitive to statistics and recover the known infinite-temperature transport regimes of the XXZ chain, including ballistic, superdiffusive and diffusive behaviours. These results identify dynamical correlation functions as direct probes of fractional statistics in high-entropy quantum systems.

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@article{arxiv.2604.20697,
  title  = {Interaction-induced asymmetry in infinite-temperature dynamical correlations of hard-core anyons},
  author = {Doru Sticlet and Ovidiu I. Pâţu and Balázs Dóra and Cătălin Paşcu Moca},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.20697},
  year   = {2026}
}

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