Less is more: more scattering leading to less resistance

Abstract

We study the breaking of integrability by a finite density of dilute impurities, specifically the emerging diffusive transport. Provided the distance between impurities (localized perturbations) is large, one would expect that the scattering rates are additive, and therefore, the resistivity is proportional to the number of impurities (the so-called Matthiessen's rule). We show that this is, in general, not the case. If transport is anomalous in the original integrable system without impurities, the diffusion constant in the non-integrable system at low impurity density gets a nontrivial power-law dependence on the impurity density, with the power being determined by the dynamical scaling exponent of anomalous transport. We also find a regime at high impurity density in which, counterintuitively, adding more impurities to an already diffusive system increases transport rather than decreases it.

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