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Multiple relaxation times in perturbed XXZ chain

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2022-08-08 v2

Abstract

We numerically study the relaxation of correlation functions in weakly perturbed integrable XXZ chain. The decay of the spin-current and the energy-current correlations at zero magnetization are well described by single, but quite distinct, relaxation rates governed by the square of the perturbation strength gg. However, at finite magnetization a single correlation function reveals multiple relaxation rates. The result can be understood in terms of multi-scale relaxation scenario, where various relaxation times are linked with various quantities which are conserved in the reference integrable system. On the other hand, the correlations of non-commuting quantities, being conserved at particular anisotropies Δ\Delta, decay non-exponentially with characteristic time scale linear in gg.

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@article{arxiv.2112.08158,
  title  = {Multiple relaxation times in perturbed XXZ chain},
  author = {M. Mierzejewski and J. Pawłowski and P. Prelovšek and J. Herbrych},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.08158},
  year   = {2022}
}