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Strong Evidence of Normal Heat Conduction in a one-Dimensional Quantum System

Chaotic Dynamics 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

We investigate how the normal energy transport is realized in one-dimensional quantum systems using a quantum spin system. The direct investigation of local energy distribution under thermal gradient is made using the quantum master equation, and the mixing properties and the convergence of the Green-Kubo formula are investigated when the number of spin increases. We find that the autocorrelation function in the Green-Kubo formula decays as t1.5\sim t^{-1.5} to a finite value which vanishes rapidly with the increase of the system size. As a result, the Green-Kubo formula converges to a finite value in the thermodynamic limit. These facts strongly support the realization of Fourier heat law in a quantum system.

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@article{arxiv.nlin/0212027,
  title  = {Strong Evidence of Normal Heat Conduction in a one-Dimensional Quantum System},
  author = {Keiji Saito},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0212027},
  year   = {2009}
}

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7 pages 6 figures