Negative differential conductivity in far-from-equilibrium quantum spin chains

Details Negative differential conductivity in far-from-equilibrium quantum spin chains Negative differential conductivity in far-from-equilibrium quantum spin chains

2008-06-13

arxiv.org/abs/0806.2236v2

Eurphys. Lett. 85, 37001 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

5 pages, 4 figures. Published version

Scientific paper

10.1209/0295-5075/85/37001

We show that, when a finite anisotropic Heisenberg spin-1/2 chain in the gapped regime is driven far from equilibrium, oppositely polarized ferromagnetic domains build up at the edges of the chain, thus suppressing quantum spin transport. As a consequence, a negative differential conductivity regime arises, where increasing the driving decreases the current. The above results are explained in terms of magnon localization and are shown to be structurally stable against breaking of integrability.

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