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Thermal transport properties of disordered spin-1/2 systems

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

This work studies heat transport of bond-disordered spin-1/2 chains. As an example, the XX case is analyzed, which corresponds to a model of noninteracting spinless fermions. Within the fermion representation, the single-particle eigenenergies are determined numerically, which allow one to compute transport coefficients. Since the ballistic transport properties of a clean chain are destroyed by disorder, the focus is on the frequency dependence of the thermal conductivity and on a qualitative comparison with the spin conductivity, both at finite temperatures.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0603081,
  title  = {Thermal transport properties of disordered spin-1/2 systems},
  author = {Fabian Heidrich-Meisner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0603081},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

2 pages, 1 figure. To be published in the Proceedings of SCES '05, Vienna, in Physica B