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High-temperature spin dynamics in the Heisenberg chain: Magnon propagation and emerging Kardar-Parisi-Zhang scaling in the zero-magnetization limit
Weiner, Felix, Schmitteckert, Peter
, Bera, Soumya and Evers, Ferdinand
(2020)
High-temperature spin dynamics in the Heisenberg chain: Magnon propagation and emerging Kardar-Parisi-Zhang scaling in the zero-magnetization limit.
Physical Review B 101 (4), 045115.
Date of publication of this fulltext: 25 May 2021 13:55
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DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.45855
Abstract
The large-scale dynamics of quantum integrable systems is often dominated by ballistic modes due to the existence of stable quasiparticles. We here consider as an archetypical example for such a system the spin-1/2 XXX Heisenberg chain that features magnons and their bound states. An interesting question, which we here investigate numerically, arises with respect to the fate of ballistic modes at ...
The large-scale dynamics of quantum integrable systems is often dominated by ballistic modes due to the existence of stable quasiparticles. We here consider as an archetypical example for such a system the spin-1/2 XXX Heisenberg chain that features magnons and their bound states. An interesting question, which we here investigate numerically, arises with respect to the fate of ballistic modes at finite temperatures in the limit of zero magnetization m=0. At a finite magnetization density m, the spin-autocorrelation function Pi(x, t) (at high temperatures) typically exhibits a trimodal behavior with left- and right-moving quasiparticle modes and a broad center peak with slower dynamics. The broadening of the fastest propagating modes exhibits a subdiffusive t(1/3) scaling at large magnetization densities m -> 1/2, familiar from noninteracting models; it crosses over into a diffusive scaling t(1/2) upon decreasing the magnetization to smaller values. The behavior of the center peak appears to exhibit a crossover from transient superdiffusion to ballistic relaxation at long times. In the limit m -> 0, the weight carried by the propagating peaks tends to zero; the residual dynamics is carried only by the central peak; it is sub-ballistic and characterized by a dynamical exponent z close to the value 3/2 familiar from Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) scaling. We confirm that, employing elaborate finite-time extrapolations, that the spatial scaling of the correlator Pi is in excellent agreement with KPZ-type behavior and analyze the corresponding corrections.
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| Item type | Article | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title | Physical Review B | ||||
| Publisher: | AMER PHYSICAL SOC | ||||
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| Open Access Type: | Due to SHERPA/RoMEO | ||||
| Place of Publication: | COLLEGE PK | ||||
| Volume: | 101 | ||||
| Number of Issue or Book Chapter: | 4 | ||||
| Page Range: | 045115 | ||||
| Date | 13 January 2020 | ||||
| Institutions | Physics > Institute of Theroretical Physics Physics > Institute of Theroretical Physics > Chair Ferdinand Evers | ||||
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
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| Keywords | MATRIX RENORMALIZATION-GROUP; | ||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | 500 Science > 530 Physics | ||||
| Status | Published | ||||
| Refereed | Yes, this version has been refereed | ||||
| Created at the University of Regensburg | Yes | ||||
| URN of the UB Regensburg | urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-458550 | ||||
| Item ID | 45855 |
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