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Subdiffusive front scaling in interacting integrable models

Statistical Mechanics 2019-04-03 v3

Abstract

We show that any interacting integrable model possesses a class of initial states for which the leading corrections to ballistic transport are subdiffusive rather than diffusive. These initial states are natural to realize experimentally and include the domain wall initial condition that has been the object of much recent scrutiny. Upon performing numerical matrix product state simulations in the spin-1/21/2 XXZ chain, we find that such states can exhibit subdiffusive t1/3t^{1/3} scaling of fronts of spin, energy and entanglement entropy across the entire range of anisotropies. This demonstrates that Tracy-Widom scaling is not incompatible with model interactions, as was previously believed.

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@article{arxiv.1810.08227,
  title  = {Subdiffusive front scaling in interacting integrable models},
  author = {Vir B. Bulchandani and Christoph Karrasch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.08227},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

v3: 5+3 pages, 6 figures, text revised

R2 v1 2026-06-23T04:45:02.617Z