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Subdiffusive transport in the Fredkin dynamical universality class

Statistical Mechanics 2025-05-29 v5 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We identify a pseudolocal conserved charge in the Fredkin and Motzkin quantum spin chains and explore its consequences for the hydrodynamics of systems with Fredkin- or Motzkin-type kinetic constraints. We use this quantity to formulate an exact upper bound O(L5/2){\cal O}(L^{-5/2}) on the gap of the Fredkin and Motzkin spin chains. Our results establish that transport in kinetically constrained dynamical systems with Fredkin or Motzkin constraints is subdiffusive, with dynamical exponent z5/2z \geq 5/2.

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@article{arxiv.2407.11110,
  title  = {Subdiffusive transport in the Fredkin dynamical universality class},
  author = {Catherine McCarthy and Hansveer Singh and Sarang Gopalakrishnan and Romain Vasseur},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.11110},
  year   = {2025}
}

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