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Spin Drude weight for the integrable XXZ chain with arbitrary spin

Statistical Mechanics 2024-03-21 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems

Abstract

Using generalized hydrodynamics (GHD), we exactly evaluate the finite-temperature spin Drude weight at zero magnetic field for the integrable XXZ chain with arbitrary spin and easy-plane anisotropy. First, we construct the fusion hierarchy of the quantum transfer matrices (TT-functions) and derive functional relations (TT- and YY-systems) satisfied by the TT-functions and certain combinations of them (YY-functions). Through analytical arguments, the YY-system is reduced to a set of non-linear integral equations, equivalent to the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz (TBA) equations. Then, employing GHD, we calculate the spin Drude weight at arbitrary finite temperatures. As a result, a characteristic fractal-like structure of the Drude weight is observed at arbitrary spin, similar to the spin-1/2 case. In our approach, the solutions to the TBA equations (i.e., the YY-functions) can be explicitly written in terms of the TT-functions, thus allowing for a systematic calculation of the high-temperature limit of the Drude weight.

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@article{arxiv.2309.16462,
  title  = {Spin Drude weight for the integrable XXZ chain with arbitrary spin},
  author = {Shinya Ae and Kazumitsu Sakai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.16462},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

45 pages; typos fixed; presentation improved; references added

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