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Thermal Drude weight in an integrable chiral clock model

Statistical Mechanics 2026-03-26 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We calculate the finite temperature thermal conductivity of a time-reversal invariant chiral Z3\mathbb{Z}_3 clock model along an integrable line in the parameter space using tDMRG. The thermal current itself is not a conserved charge, unlike in the XXZ model, but has a finite overlap with a local conserved charge Q(2)Q^{(2)} obtained from the transfer matrix. We find that the Drude weight is finite at non-zero temperature, and the Mazur bound from Q(2)Q^{(2)} saturates the Drude weight, allowing us to obtain an asymptotic expression for the Drude weight at high temperatures. The numerical estimates are validated using a sum rule for thermal conductivity. On the computational side, we also explore the effectiveness of the ancilla disentangler in the integrable and non-integrable regimes of the model. We find that the disentangler helps in localizing the entanglement growth around the quench location, but the improvement is lesser in the non-integrable regime and at low temperatures.

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@article{arxiv.2305.06413,
  title  = {Thermal Drude weight in an integrable chiral clock model},
  author = {Sandipan Manna and G J Sreejith},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.06413},
  year   = {2026}
}
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