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Kazuya Fujimoto1, Tomohiro Sasamoto1
1Institute of Science Tokyo, Department of Physics, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan.
Abstract:
We theoretically study quantum spin transport in a one-dimensional folded XXZ model with an alternating domain-wall initial state via the Bethe ansatz technique, exactly demonstrating that a probability distribution of finding a leftmost up spin with an appropriate scaling variable converges to the Tracy-Widom distribution for the Gaussian unitary ensemble (GUE), which is a universal distribution for the largest eigenvalue of GUE under a soft-edge scaling limit. Our finding presented here offers a first exact derivation of the GUE Tracy-Widom distribution in the dynamics of the interacting quantum model not being mapped to noninteracting fermions via the Jordan-Wigner transformation. On the basis of the exact solution of the folded XXZ model and our numerical analysis of the XXZ model, we discuss a universal behavior for the probability of finding the leftmost up spin in the XXZ model.
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