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Title: Superdiffusion from Emergent Classical Solitons in Quantum Spin Chains

Abstract

Finite-temperature spin transport in the quantum Heisenberg spin chain is known to be superdiffusive, and has been conjectured to lie in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality class. Using a kinetic theory of transport, we compute the KPZ coupling strength for the Heisenberg chain as a function of temperature, directly from microscopics; the results agree well with density-matrix renormalization group simulations. Here, we establish a rigorous quantum-classical correspondence between the “giant quasiparticles” that govern superdiffusion and solitons in the classical continuous Landau-Lifshitz ferromagnet. We conclude that KPZ universality has the same origin in classical and quantum integrable isotropic magnets: a finite-temperature gas of low-energy classical solitons.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4]
  1. Univ. of Ghent (Belgium)
  2. CUNY College of Staten Island, Staten Island, NY (United States); CUNY, NY (United States)
  3. Univ. of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
  4. Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; National Science Foundation (NSF)
OSTI Identifier:
1647653
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0019168; DMR-1653271
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 125; Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; Transport phenomena; 1-dimensional spin chains; Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation; Solitons

Citation Formats

De Nardis, Jacopo, Gopalakrishnan, Sarang, Ilievski, Enej, and Vasseur, Romain. Superdiffusion from Emergent Classical Solitons in Quantum Spin Chains. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.125.070601.
De Nardis, Jacopo, Gopalakrishnan, Sarang, Ilievski, Enej, & Vasseur, Romain. Superdiffusion from Emergent Classical Solitons in Quantum Spin Chains. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.125.070601
De Nardis, Jacopo, Gopalakrishnan, Sarang, Ilievski, Enej, and Vasseur, Romain. Wed . "Superdiffusion from Emergent Classical Solitons in Quantum Spin Chains". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.125.070601. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1647653.
@article{osti_1647653,
title = {Superdiffusion from Emergent Classical Solitons in Quantum Spin Chains},
author = {De Nardis, Jacopo and Gopalakrishnan, Sarang and Ilievski, Enej and Vasseur, Romain},
abstractNote = {Finite-temperature spin transport in the quantum Heisenberg spin chain is known to be superdiffusive, and has been conjectured to lie in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality class. Using a kinetic theory of transport, we compute the KPZ coupling strength for the Heisenberg chain as a function of temperature, directly from microscopics; the results agree well with density-matrix renormalization group simulations. Here, we establish a rigorous quantum-classical correspondence between the “giant quasiparticles” that govern superdiffusion and solitons in the classical continuous Landau-Lifshitz ferromagnet. We conclude that KPZ universality has the same origin in classical and quantum integrable isotropic magnets: a finite-temperature gas of low-energy classical solitons.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevlett.125.070601},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 7,
volume = 125,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Aug 12 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Wed Aug 12 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}

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