Anomalous transport from hot quasiparticles in interacting spin chains.

Rep Prog Phys

Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, United States of America.

Published: February 2023

AI Article Synopsis

  • Many quantum spin chains, particularly the XXZ model, are nearly integrable and support long-lived quasiparticle excitations that affect energy and spin transport.
  • This review focuses on the transport properties of the XXZ spin chain, illustrating how energy spreads quickly while spin transport can be diffusive or even superdiffusive.
  • The discussion includes recent advancements in non-linear response, far-from-equilibrium transport, and highlights recent numerical and experimental findings related to transport behaviors in these quantum systems.

Article Abstract

Many experimentally relevant quantum spin chains are approximately integrable, and support long-lived quasiparticle excitations. A canonical example of integrable model of quantum magnetism is the XXZ spin chain, for which energy spreads ballistically, but, surprisingly, spin transport can be diffusive or superdiffusive. We review the transport properties of this model using an intuitive quasiparticle picture that relies on the recently introduced framework of generalized hydrodynamics. We discuss how anomalous linear response properties emerge from hierarchies of quasiparticles both in integrable and near-integrable limits, with an emphasis on the role of hydrodynamic fluctuations. We also comment on recent developments including non-linear response, full-counting statistics and far-from-equilibrium transport. We provide an overview of recent numerical and experimental results on transport in XXZ spin chains.

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