Spin and energy currents in integrable and nonintegrable spin-1/2 chains: A typicality approach to real-time autocorrelations
arXiv:1408.6837 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.91.104404
Abstract
We use the concept of typicality to study the real-time dynamics of spin and energy currents in spin-1/2 models in one dimension and at nonzero temperatures. These chains are the integrable XXZ chain and a nonintegrable modification due to the presence of a staggered magnetic field oriented in z direction. In the framework of linear response theory, we numerically calculate autocorrelation functions by propagating a single pure state, drawn at random as a typical representative of the full statistical ensemble. By comparing to small-system data from exact diagonalization (ED) and existing short-time data from time-dependent density matrix renormalization group (tDMRG), we show that typicality is satisfied in finite systems over a wide range of temperature and is fulfilled in both, integrable and nonintegrable systems. For the integrable case, we calculate the long-time dynamics of the spin current and extract the spin Drude weight for large systems outside the range of ED. We particularly provide strong evidence that the high-temperature Drude weight vanishes at the isotropic point. For the nonintegrable case, we obtain the full relaxation curve of the energy current and determine the heat conductivity as a function of magnetic field, exchange anisotropy, and temperature.
arXiv comment14 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B
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