Domain wall dynamics of the spin-
21 Ising-like antiferromagnetic chain in presence of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions
In this paper we obtain formulas for the distribution of the left-most up-spin in the Heisenberg-Ising spin-1/2 chain with anisotropy parameter
Δ, also known as the XXZ spin-1/2 chain, on the one-dimensional lattice
Z with domain wall initial conditions. We use the Bethe Ansatz to solve the Schr
o¨dinger equation and a recent antisymmetrization identity of Cantini, Colomo, and Pronko (arXiv:1906.07636) to simplify the marginal distribution of the left-most up-spin. In the
Δ=0 case, the distribution
F2 arises. In the
Δ=0 case, we propose a conjectural series expansion type formula based on a saddle point analysis. The conjectural formula turns out to be a Fredholm series expansion in the
Δ→0 limit and recovers the result for
Δ=0.
We study the real-time domain-wall dynamics near a quantum critical point of the one-dimensional anisotropic ferromagnetic spin
1∕2 chain. By numerical simulation, we find that the domain wall is dynamically stable in the Heisenberg-Ising model. Near the quantum critical point, the width of the domain wall diverges as ${(\ensuremath{\Delta}\ensuremath{-}1)}^{\ensuremath{-}1∕2}$.