Integrable spin chains with random interactions

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Publication date 01-07-2018
Journal Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Article number 024203
Volume | Issue number 98 | 2
Number of pages 10
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  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Informatics Institute (IVI)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP)
Abstract
We study a Yang-Baxter integrable quantum spin-1/2 chain with random interactions. The Hamiltonian is local and involves two- and three-spin interactions with random parameters. We show that the energy eigenstates of the model are never localized and in fact exhibit perfect energy and spin transport at both zero and infinite temperatures. By considering the vicinity of a free fermion point in the model we demonstrate that this behavior persists under deformations that break Yang-Baxter integrability but preserve the free fermion nature of the Hamiltonian. In this case the ballistic behavior can be understood as arising from the correlated nature of the disorder in the model. We conjecture that the model belongs to a broad class of models avoiding localization in 1D.
Document type Article
Note ©2018 American Physical Society
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.98.024203
Published at https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.98.024203
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