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arXiv:1910.12155 · SciPost Physics Lecture Notes

Transport in one-dimensional integrable quantum systems

Jesko Sirker

Published Aug 20, 2020• 28 citations
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Abstract

These notes are based on a series of three lectures given at the Les Houches summer school on ’Integrability in Atomic and Condensed Matter Physics’ in August 2018. They provide an introduction into the unusual transport properties of integrable models in the linear response regime focussing, in particular, on the spin- 1/2 1 / 2 XXZ spin chain.

DOI
10.21468/scipostphyslectnotes.17

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These notes are based on a series of three lectures given at the Les Houches summer school on ’Integrability in Atomic and Condensed Matter Physics’ in August 2018. They provide an introduction into the unusual transport properties of integrable models in the linear response regime focussing, in particular, on the spin- 1/2 1 / 2 XXZ spin chain.
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