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arXiv:2604.20697 · Physical Review Research

Interaction-induced asymmetry in infinite-temperature dynamical correlations of hard-core anyons

Doru Sticlet, Ovidiu I. Pâţu, Balázs Dóra, Cătălin Paşcu Moca

Published Jul 28, 2026• 0 citations
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Abstract

We study dynamical correlations of interacting hard-core anyons on a one-dimensional lattice at infinite temperature. This is a setting in which the many-body spectrum is independent of the statistical phase θ , while dynamical correlators remain sensitive to θ through nonlocal Jordan-Wigner strings. We compute single-particle Green's functions, spectral functions, and density-density correlators, thereby separating the effects of fractional statistics on one-body coherence from those on density transport in a maximally mixed ensemble. In the noninteracting case V = 0 , high-temperature averaging leads to inversion-symmetric Green's functions for all θ despite the presence of anyonic strings. Finite nearest-neighbor interactions V generate, however, a pronounced left-right asymmetry in the Green's functions for 0 < θ < π , with the strongest chirality appearing at intermediate couplings V ∼ J where interactions and hopping compete most effectively. In this regime, the Green's function decays exponentially in time with a statistical-angle-dependent decay rate. At strong coupling, the dynamics crosses over to an atomic-limit regime in which the dependence on θ is reduced. Here, the Green's function decays universally as t − 1 and the corresponding spectral function displays a three-band structure. In contrast, density-density correlations are insensitive to statistics and recover the known infinite-temperature transport regimes of the XXZ chain, including ballistic, superdiffusive, and diffusive behaviors. These results identify dynamical correlation functions as direct probes of fractional statistics in high-entropy quantum systems.

DOI
10.1103/yxs5-hcfm

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