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Strong evidence of normal heat conduction in a one-dimensional quantum system

2003 EDP Sciences
, , Citation K. Saito 2003 EPL 61 34 DOI 10.1209/epl/i2003-00241-3

0295-5075/61/1/34

Abstract

We investigate how the normal energy transport is realized in one-dimensional quantum systems using a quantum spin system. The direct investigation of local energy distribution under thermal gradient is made using the quantum master equation, and the mixing properties and the convergence of the Green-Kubo formula are investigated when the number of spin increases. We find that the autocorrelation function in the Green-Kubo formula decays as ∼ t−1.5 to a finite value which vanishes rapidly with the increase of the system size. As a result, the Green-Kubo formula converges to a finite value in the thermodynamic limit. These facts strongly support the realization of Fourier heat law in a quantum system.

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10.1209/epl/i2003-00241-3