Tuesday, November 13, 2012

1211.2236 (C. Karrasch et al.)

Nonequilibrium thermal transport and its relation to linear response    [PDF]

C. Karrasch, R. Ilan, J. E. Moore
We study the real-time dynamics of spin chains driven out of thermal equilibrium by an initial temperature gradient T_L \neq T_R. We demonstrate that the nonequilibrium energy current saturates fast to a finite value if the linear-response thermal conductivity is infinite, i.e. if the Drude weight D is nonzero. Our data suggests that a nonintegrable dimerized chain might support such dissipationless transport (D>0). We show that the steady-state value of the current for arbitrary T_L \neq T_R is completely determined by the linear conductance. Inhomogeneous systems exhibiting different bulk parameters as well as Luttinger liquid boundary physics induced by single impurities are discussed shortly.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.2236

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