Thermodyamic bounds on Drude weights in terms of almost-conserved quantities

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DOI10.1007/S00220-012-1599-4zbMATH Open1271.82002arXiv1111.3830OpenAlexW3099003735WikidataQ59454012 ScholiaQ59454012MaRDI QIDQ1944835FDOQ1944835

Tomaž Prosen, Enej Ilievski

Publication date: 28 March 2013

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider one-dimensional translationally invariant quantum spin (or fermionic) lattices and prove a Mazur-type inequality bounding the time-averaged thermodynamic limit of a finite-temperature expectation of a spatio-temporal autocorrelation function of a local observable in terms of quasi-local conservation laws with open boundary conditions. Namely, the commutator between the Hamiltonian and the conservation law of a finite chain may result in boundary terms only. No reference to techniques used in Suzuki's proof of Mazur bound is made (which strictly applies only to finite-size systems with exact conservation laws), but Lieb-Robinson bounds and exponential clustering theorems of quasi-local C^* quantum spin algebras are invoked instead. Our result has an important application in the transport theory of quantum spin chains, in particular it provides rigorous non-trivial examples of positive finite-temperature spin Drude weight in the anisotropic Heisenberg XXZ spin 1/2 chain [Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 217206 (2011)].


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