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We address the nature of spin transport in the integrable XXZ spin chain, focusing on the isotropic Heisenberg limit. We calculate the diffusion constant using a kinetic picture based on generalized hydrodynamics combined with Gaussian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-02 Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Romain Vasseur

Symmetries strongly influence transport properties of quantum many-body systems, and can lead to deviations from the generic case of diffusion. In this work, we study the impact of time-reversal symmetry breaking on the transport and its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-03 Cristiano Muzzi , Devendra Singh Bhakuni , Marcello Dalmonte , Lenart Zadnik , Hernan B. Xavier

We investigate transport in several translationally invariant spin-1/2 chains in the limit of high temperatures. We concretely consider spin transport in the anisotropic Heisenberg chain, the pure Heisenberg chain within an alternating…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-03 Robin Steinigeweg , Jochen Gemmer

We present the theory of nonzero temperature ($T$) spin dynamics and transport in one-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnets with an energy gap $\Delta$. For $T << \Delta$, we develop a semiclassical picture of thermally excited particles.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Kedar Damle , Subir Sachdev

Recent studies report on anomalous spin transport for the integrable Heisenberg spin chain at its isotropic point. Anomalous scaling is also observed in the time-evolution of non-equilibrium initial conditions, the decay of current-current…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-24 Avijit Das , Manas Kulkarni , Herbert Spohn , Abhishek Dhar

We study the nonequilibrium dynamics of random spin chains that remain integrable (i.e., solvable via Bethe ansatz): because of correlations in the disorder, these systems escape localization and feature ballistically spreading…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-05-22 Utkarsh Agrawal , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Romain Vasseur

The spectrum of the integrable spin-S Heisenberg chains is completely characterized in terms of spin-1/2 spinons. In the continuum limit they form a quasi-particle basis to the higher level SU(2) Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) models. Enumerating…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Holger Frahm , Martin Stahlsmeier

The problem of characterizing low-temperature spin dynamics in antiferromagnetic spin chains has so far remained elusive. We reinvestigate it by focusing on isotropic antiferromagnetic chains whose low-energy effective field theory is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-06 Jacopo De Nardis , Marko Medenjak , Christoph Karrasch , Enej Ilievski

We study high-temperature spin transport through an anisotropic spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain in which integrability is broken by a single impurity close to the center of the chain. For a finite impurity strength, the level spacing statistics…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-24 Marlon Brenes , Eduardo Mascarenhas , Marcos Rigol , John Goold

We study spin transport in a boundary driven XXZ spin chain. Driving at the chain boundaries is modeled by two additional spin chains prepared in oppositely polarized states. Emergent behavior, both in the transient dynamics and in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-21 Eduardo Mascarenhas , Giacomo Giudice , Vincenzo Savona

High-temperature spin transport in integrable quantum spin chains exhibits a rich dynamical phase diagram, including ballistic, superdiffusive, and diffusive regimes. While integrability is known to survive in static and periodically driven…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-11 Songlei Wang , Chenguang Liang , Hongzheng Zhao , Zhi-Cheng Yang

Understanding the physics of the integrable spin-1/2 XXZ chain has witnessed substantial progress, due to the development and application of sophisticated analytical and numerical techniques. In particular, infinite-temperature…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-08 Markus Kraft , Mariel Kempa , Jiaozi Wang , Sourav Nandy , Robin Steinigeweg

Anomalous transport in low dimensional spin chains is an intriguing topic that can offer key insights into the interplay of integrability and symmetry in many-body dynamics. Recent studies have shown that spin-spin correlations in spin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-14 Dipankar Roy , Abhishek Dhar , Herbert Spohn , Manas Kulkarni

We study experimentally the far-from-equilibrium dynamics in ferromagnetic Heisenberg quantum magnets realized with ultracold atoms in an optical lattice. After controlled imprinting of a spin spiral pattern with adjustable wave vector, we…

Based on the ballistic macroscopic fluctuation theory, the integration of the spin correlation function (spin conductivity) is analyzed for the spin-1/2 XXZ chain in the critical regime. In the time when the magnetization of an infinite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-05 Shinya Ae

Although integrable spin chains only host ballistically propagating particles they can still feature diffusive spin transport. This diffusive spin transport originates from quasiparticle charge fluctuations inherited from the initial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-19 Hansveer Singh , Michael H. Kolodrubetz , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Romain Vasseur

We numerically study spin transport and nonequilibrium spin-density profiles in a clean one-dimensional spin-chain with long-range interactions, decaying as a power-law,$r^{-\alpha}$ with distance. We find two distinct regimes of transport:…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-03-27 Benedikt Kloss , Yevgeny Bar Lev

We demonstrate ballistic spin transport of an integrable unitary quantum circuit, which can be understood either as a paradigm of an integrable periodically driven (Floquet) spin chain, or as a Trotterized anisotropic ($XXZ$) Heisenberg…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-24 Marko Ljubotina , Lenart Zadnik , Tomaž Prosen

A common wisdom posits that transports of conserved quantities across clean nonintegrable quantum systems at high temperatures are diffusive when probed from the emergent hydrodynamic regime. We show that this empirical paradigm may alter…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-20 Chun Chen , Yan Chen , Xiaoqun Wang

Many low-dimensional materials are well described by integrable one-dimensional models such as the Hubbard model of electrons or the Heisenberg model of spins. However, the small perturbations to these models required to describe real…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-10-02 Y. Huang , C. Karrasch , J. E. Moore