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Spin transport of weakly disordered Heisenberg chain at infinite temperature

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2016-06-22 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We study the disordered Heisenberg spin chain, which exhibits many body localization at strong disorder, in the weak to moderate disorder regime. A continued fraction calculation of dynamical correlations is devised, using a variational extrapolation of recurrents. Good convergence for the infinite chain limit is shown. We find that the local spin correlations decay at long times as CtβC \sim t^{-\beta}, while the conductivity exhibits a low frequency power law σωα\sigma \sim \omega^{\alpha}. The exponents depict sub-diffusive behavior β<1/2,α>0 \beta < 1/2, \alpha> 0 at all finite disorders, and convergence to the scaling result, α+2β=1\alpha+2\beta = 1, at large disorders.

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@article{arxiv.1603.06588,
  title  = {Spin transport of weakly disordered Heisenberg chain at infinite temperature},
  author = {Ilia Khait and Snir Gazit and Norman Y. Yao and Assa Auerbach},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.06588},
  year   = {2016}
}

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7 pages, 8 figures