Spin conductivity in almost integrable spin chains

Details Spin conductivity in almost integrable spin chains Spin conductivity in almost integrable spin chains

2007-08-09

arxiv.org/abs/0708.1313v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

6 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.76.245108

The spin conductivity in the integrable spin-1/2 XXZ-chain is known to be infinite at finite temperatures T for anisotropies -1 < Delta < 1. Perturbations which break integrability, e.g. a next-nearest neighbor coupling J', render the conductivity finite. We construct numerically a non-local conserved operator J_parallel which is responsible for the finite spin Drude weight of the integrable model and calculate its decay rate for small J'. This allows us to obtain a lower bound for the spin conductivity sigma_s >= c(T) / J'^2, where c(T) is finite for J' to 0. We discuss the implication of our result for the general question how non-local conservation laws affect transport properties.

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