Absence of high-temperature ballistic transport in the spin-1/2 XXX chain within the grand-canonical ensemble

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2016.10.021zbMATH Open1353.82012arXiv1611.08582OpenAlexW2547977609WikidataQ59898525 ScholiaQ59898525MaRDI QIDQ501699FDOQ501699

Authors: J. M. P. Carmelo, Tomaž Prosen 

Publication date: 9 January 2017

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Whether in the thermodynamic limit, vanishing magnetic field $hightarrow0$, and nonzero temperature the spin stiffness of the spin-$1/2$ $XXX$ Heisenberg chain is finite or vanishes within the grand-canonical ensemble remains an unsolved and controversial issue, as different approaches yield contradictory results. Here we provide an upper bound on the stiffness and show that within that ensemble it vanishes for $hightarrow0$ in the thermodynamic limit of chain length $Loinfty$, at high temperatures $Tightarrowinfty$. Our approach uses a representation in terms of the $L$ physical spins $1/2$. For all configurations that generate the exact spin-$S$ energy and momentum eigenstates such a configuration involves a number $2S$ of unpaired spins $1/2$ in multiplet configurations and $L-2S$ spins $1/2$ that are paired within $M_{msp}=L/2-S$ spin-singlet pairs. The Bethe-ansatz strings of length $n=1$ and $n>1$ describe a single unbound spin-singlet pair and a configuration within which $n$ pairs are bound, respectively. In the case of $n>1$ pairs this holds both for ideal and deformed strings associated with $n$ complex rapidities with the same real part. The use of such a spin $1/2$ representation provides useful physical information on the problem under investigation in contrast to often less controllable numerical studies. Our results provide strong evidence for the absence of ballistic transport in the spin-$1/2$ $XXX$ Heisenberg chain in the thermodynamic limit, for high temperatures $Toinfty$, vanishing magnetic field $hightarrow0$ and within the grand-canonical ensemble.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.08582

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Exactly solvable models; Bethe ansatz (82B23) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30) Statistical mechanics of magnetic materials (82D40) Continuum limits in quantum field theory (81T27)

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