Decay of currents for strong interactions

Details Decay of currents for strong interactions Decay of currents for strong interactions

2011-03-25

arxiv.org/abs/1103.5001v2

Phys. Rev. E 84, 011136 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

13 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.84.011136

The decay of current autocorrelation functions is investigated for quantum systems featuring strong 'interactions'. Here, the term interaction refers to that part of the Hamiltonian causing the (major) decay of the current. On the time scale before the (first) zero-crossing of the current, its relaxation is shown to be well described by a suitable perturbation theory in the lowest orders of the interaction strength, even and especially if interactions are strong. In this description the relaxation is found to be rather close to a Gaussian decay and the resulting diffusion coefficient approximately scales with the inverse interaction strength. These findings are also confirmed by numerical results from exact diagonalization for several one-dimensional transport models including spin transport in the Heisenberg chain w.r.t. different spin quantum numbers, anisotropy, next-to-nearest-neighbor interaction, or alternating magnetic field; energy transport in the Ising chain with tilted magnetic field; and transport of excitations in a randomly coupled modular quantum system. The impact of these results for weak interactions is finally discussed.

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