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arXiv:1706.00015 · Physical review. B./Physical review. B

Absence of a charge diffusion pole at finite energies in an exactly solvable interacting flat-band model in d dimensions

Philip Phillips, Chandan Setty, Shuyi Zhang

Published May 2, 2018• 15 citations
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Abstract

Motivated by recent bounds for charge diffusion in critical matter, we investigate the following question: What sets the scale for the velocity for diffusing degrees of freedom in a scale-invariant system? To make our statements precise, we analyze the diffusion pole in an exactly solvable model for a Mott transition in the presence of a long-range interaction term. To achieve scale invariance, we limit our discussion to the flat-band regime. We find in this limit that the diffusion pole, which would normally obtain at finite energy, is pushed to zero energy, resulting in a vanishing of the diffusion constant. This occurs even in the presence of interactions in certain limits, indicating the robustness of this result to the inclusion of a scale in the problem. Consequently, scale invariance precludes any reasonable definition of the diffusion constant. Nonetheless, we do find that a scale can be defined, albeit irrelevant to diffusion, which is the product of the squared band velocity and the density of states.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.97.195102

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We investigate energy diffusion in long-range interacting spin systems, where the interaction decays algebraically as V(r)∝r^{-α} with the distance r between the sites. We consider prototypical spin systems, the transverse Ising model, and the XYZ model in the D-dimensional lattice with a finite exponent α>D which guarantees the thermodynamic extensivity. In one dimension, both normal and anomalous diffusion are observed, where the anomalous diffusion is attributed to anomalous enhancement of the amplitude of the equilibrium current correlation. We prove the power-law clustering property of arbitrary orders of joint cumulants in general dimensions. Applying this theorem to equal-time current correlations, we further prove several theorems leading to the statement that the sufficient condition for normal diffusion in one dimension is α>3/2 regardless of the models. The fluctuating hydrodynamics approach consistently explains Lévy diffusion for α<3/2, which implies that the condition is optimal. In higher dimensions of D≥2, normal diffusion is indicated as long as α>D.