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Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality from soft gauge modes

Statistical Mechanics 2020-02-03 v3

Abstract

The emergence of superdiffusive spin dynamics in integrable classical and quantum magnets is well established by now, but there is no generally valid theoretical explanation for this phenomenon. A fundamental difficulty is that the hydrodynamic fluctuations of conserved quasiparticle modes are purely diffusive. We argue that in isotropic integrable magnets, a complete hydrodynamic description must include soft "gauge" degrees of freedom, that arise from spontaneous breaking of the Bethe pseudovacuum symmetry. We show that the coarse-grained time evolution of these modes lies in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class of dynamics.

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@article{arxiv.1910.08266,
  title  = {Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality from soft gauge modes},
  author = {Vir B. Bulchandani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.08266},
  year   = {2020}
}

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v3: 6 pages, published version