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

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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)].


One-dimensional translationally invariant quantum spin (or ferromagnetic) lattices are considered. A Mazur-type inequality is proven, which bounds 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. The commutator of the Hamiltonian and the conservation law of a finite chain may result only in boundary terms. Instead Suzuki's proof of the Mazur bound, Lieb-Robinson bounds and exponential clustering theorems of quasi-local \(C^*\) quantum spin algebras are invoked. It is shown that the Drude weight is strictly bounded from below. An almost trivial generalization of the result is given for an arbitrary set of conserved quasi-local operators. A nontrivial application of the results is shown for bounding the spin Drude weight in the anisotropic Heisenberg XXZ model.




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