Subdiffusive spin transport in disordered classical Heisenberg chains
arXiv:2304.05423 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.108.094204
Abstract
We study the transport and equilibration properties of a classical Heisenberg chain, whose couplings are random variables drawn from a one-parameter family of power-law distributions. The absence of a scale in the couplings makes the system deviate substantially from the usual paradigm of diffusive spin hydrodynamics, and exhibit a regime of subdiffusive transport with an exponent changing continuously with the parameter of the distribution. We propose a solvable phenomenological model that correctly yields the subdiffusive exponent, thereby linking local fluctuations in the coupling strengths to the long-time, large-distance behaviour. It also yields the finite-time corrections to the asymptotic scaling, which can be important in fitting the numerical data. We show how such exponents undergo transitions as the distribution of the coupling gets wider, marking the passage from diffusion to a regime of slow diffusion, and finally to subdiffusion.
10+3 pages, 5+4 figures
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