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Spacetime inversion symmetries such as parity and time reversal play a central role in physics, but they are usually treated as global symmetries. In quantum gravity there are no global symmetries, so any spacetime inversion symmetries must…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-25 Daniel Harlow , Tokiro Numasawa

We investigate the spectral and transport properties of many-body quantum systems with conserved charges and kinetic constraints. Using random unitary circuits, we compute ensemble-averaged spectral form factors and linear-response…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-06 Hansveer Singh , Brayden Ware , Romain Vasseur , Aaron J. Friedman

We study the spin dynamics in the presence of impurity and electron-electron (e-e) scattering in a III-V semiconductor quantum well with arbitrary spin-orbit coupling (SOC) strength and symmetry at finite temperature. We derive the coupled…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-11 Xin Liu , Jairo Sinova

Quantum directed transport can be realized in non-interacting, deterministic, chaotic systems by appropriately breaking the spatio-temporal symmetries in the potential. In this work, the focus is on the class of interacting quantum systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-16 Sanku Paul , J. Bharathi Kannan , M. S. Santhanam

We analyze transport of local magnetization and develop schemes to control transport behavior in finite spin-1/2 Heisenberg chains and spin-1/2 Heisenberg two-leg ladders at zero temperature. By adjusting parameters in the Hamiltonians,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. F. Santos

Harnessing spins as carriers for information has emerged as an elegant extension to the transport of electrical charges. The coherence of such spin transport in spintronic circuits is determined by the lifetime of spin excitations and by…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-07-24 Marco Koschorreck , Daniel Pertot , Enrico Vogt , Michael Köhl

The two-time nonequilibrium correlation and response functions in 1D kinetic classical spin systems with non-conserved dynamics and quenched to their zero-temperature critical point are studied. The exact solution of the kinetic Ising model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 Malte Henkel , Gunter M. Schütz

Starting from a continuum constituted by charged tops, we formulate the classical counterpart of a previously obtained covariant continuity-like equation for the spin current. Such a formulism provides an intuitive picture to elucidate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-19 Pei-Qing Jin , You-Quan Li

We investigate the ratchet current that appears in a kicked Hamiltonian system when the period of the kicks corresponds to the regime of quantum resonance. In the classical analogue, a spatial-temporal symmetry should be broken to obtain a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Dario Poletti , Gabriel G. Carlo , Baowen Li

Understanding which physical processes are symmetric with respect to time inversion is a ubiquitous problem in physics. In quantum physics, effective gauge fields allow emulation of matter under strong magnetic fields, realizing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-25 Jacob Biamonte , Jacob Turner

We study interference effects in the dynamics of a spin-$1/2$ particle propagating in two dimensions in a disordered potential and subject to a generalized spin-orbit coupling. With the particle initially in a spin-polarized plane wave…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-13 Masataka Kakoi , Christian Miniatura , Keith Slevin

We study quantum quenches in the $S=1$ Heisenberg spin chain and show that the dynamics can be described by the recently developed semi-semiclassical method based on particles propagating along classical trajectories but scattering quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-10 Miklós Antal Werner , Cătălin Paşcu Moca , Örs Legeza , Márton Kormos , Gergely Zaránd

We investigate some foundational issues in the quantum theory of spin transport, in the general case when the unperturbed Hamiltonian operator $H_0$ does not commute with the spin operator in view of Rashba interactions, as in the typical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Giovanna Marcelli , Gianluca Panati , Stefan Teufel

We study the stroboscopic dynamics of a spin-$S$ object subjected to $\delta$-function kicking in the transverse magnetic field which is generated following the Fibonacci sequence. The corresponding classical Hamiltonian map is constructed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-27 Sayak Ray , Subhasis Sinha , Diptiman Sen

In this work we manifest that an electrostatic disorder in conducting systems with broken time reversal symmetry universally leads to a chiral ordering of the electron gas giving rise to skyrmion-like textures in spatial distribution of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-08 K. S. Denisov , I. V. Rozhansky , N. S. Averkiev , E. Lahderanta

The relation between supersymmetric gauge theories in four dimensions and quantum spin systems is exploited to find an explicit formula for the Jost function of the $N$ site $\mathfrak{sl}_{2}$ $XXX$ spin chain (for infinite dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-23 Norton Lee , Nikita Nekrasov

Simulating many-body quantum systems poses significant challenges due to the large size of the state space. To address this issue, we propose using an SU(2) coherent state for individual spins to simulate spins on a lattice and derive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-14 Grace Hsiao-Han Chuang , Abhijit Pendse

The dynamics of many-body systems spanning condensed matter, cosmology, and beyond is hypothesized to be universal when the systems cross continuous phase transitions. The universal dynamics is expected to satisfy a scaling symmetry of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-11-15 Logan W. Clark , Lei Feng , Cheng Chin

We show that the path integral for the three-dimensional SU(2) BF theory with a Wilson loop or a spin network function inserted can be understood as the Rovelli-Smolin loop transform of a wavefunction in the Ashtekar connection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-01-16 A. Mikovic

We demonstrate that the concept of quantum typicality allows for significant progress in the study of real-time spin dynamics and transport in quantum magnets. To this end, we present a numerical analysis of the spin-current autocorrelation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-03-31 Robin Steinigeweg , Jochen Gemmer , Wolfram Brenig