Numerical studies on the linear Ising-Heisenberg model

Robin Heveling, Jiaozi Wang, Jochen Gemmer B

Recently, a hypothesis on the complexity growth of unitarily evolving operators was presented. This hypothesis states that in generic, nonintegrable many-body systems, the so-called Lanczos coefficients associated with an autocorrelation function grow asymptotically linear, with a logarithmic correction in one-dimensional systems. In contrast, the growth is expected to be slower in integrable or free models. In this paper, we numerically test this hypothesis for a variety of exemplary systems, including one-dimensional and two-dimensional Ising models as well as one-dimensional Heisenberg models. While we find the hypothesis to be practically fulfilled for all considered Ising models, the onset of the hypothesized universal behavior could not be observed in the attainable numerical data for the Heisenberg model. The proposed linear bound on operator growth associated with the hypothesis eventually stems from geometric arguments involving the locality of the Hamiltonian as well as the lattice configuration. We derive and investigate a related geometric bound, and we find that while the bound itself is not sharply achieved for any considered model, the hypothesis is nonetheless fulfilled in most cases.

Ishita Agarwal

Marko Žnidarič

We analytically and numerically study spin transport in a one-dimensional Heisenberg model in linear-response regime at infinite temperature. It is shown that as the anisotropy parameter Δ is varied spin transport changes from ballistic for Δ<1 to anomalous at the isotropic point Δ=1, to diffusive for finite Δ>1, ending up as a perfect isolator in the Ising limit of infinite Δ. Using perturbation theory for large Δ a quantitative prediction is made for the dependence of diffusion constant on Δ.

Walter Greiner, Ludwig Neise, Horst Stöcker B

武 小保方

Tohru Morita

A general discussion on applying the cluster variation method to non-uniform Ising and Heisenberg models is given. In particular, a general formula is provided for obtaining the linear response to increases of the external fields and the parameters of interactions for the uniform Ising and Heisenberg models in the cluster variation method. As an illustration, it is shown that the expressions of the spin-pair correlation function in the pair and the square approximation are readily derived by the formula, for the Ising models on the square and simple cubic lattices.