Nonlinear fluctuating hydrodynamics for the classical XXZ spin chain

DOI10.1007/S10955-019-02397-YzbMATH Open1445.82006arXiv1901.00024OpenAlexW3102136626WikidataQ126990360 ScholiaQ126990360MaRDI QIDQ2194149FDOQ2194149

Authors: Avijit Das, Kedar Damle, Abhishek Dhar, David A. Huse, Manas Kulkarni, Christian B. Mendl, Herbert Spohn 

Publication date: 25 August 2020

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Using the framework of nonlinear fluctuating hydrodynamics (NFH), we examine equilibrium spatio-temporal correlations in classical ferromagnetic spin chains with nearest neighbor interactions. In particular, we consider the classical XXZ-Heisenberg spin chain (also known as Lattice Landau Lifshitz or LLL model) evolving deterministically and chaotically via Hamiltonian dynamics, for which energy and $z$-magnetization are the only locally conserved fields. For the easy-plane case, this system has a low-temperature regime in which the difference between neighboring spin's angular orientations in the XY plane is an extit{almost conserved} field. According to the predictions of NFH, the dynamic correlations in this regime exhibit a heat peak and propagating sound peaks, all with anomalous broadening. We present a detailed molecular dynamics test of these predictions and find a reasonably accurate verification. We find that, in a suitable intermediate temperature regime, the system shows two sound peaks with Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) scaling and a heat peak where the expected anomalous broadening is less clear. In high temperature regimes of both easy plane and easy axis case of LLL, our numerics show clear diffusive spin and energy peaks and absence of any sound modes, as one would expect. We also simulate an integrable version of the XXZ-model, for which the ballistic component instead moves with a broad range of speeds rather than being concentrated in narrower peaks around the sound speed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00024

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zbMATH Keywords

hydrodynamicsHeisenberg spin chaindynamical correlations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Dynamic lattice systems (kinetic Ising, etc.) and systems on graphs in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C20) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Statistical mechanics of magnetic materials (82D40) Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory (82C35)

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