# Superdiffusion from Emergent Classical Solitons in Quantum Spin Chains.

@article{deNardis2020SuperdiffusionFE,
title={Superdiffusion from Emergent Classical Solitons in Quantum Spin Chains.},
author={Jacopo de Nardis and Sarang Gopalakrishnan and Enej Ilievski and Romain Vasseur},
journal={Physical review letters},
year={2020},
volume={125 7},
pages={
070601
}
}
• Published 30 March 2020
• Physics
• Physical review letters
Finite-temperature spin transport in the quantum Heisenberg spin chain is known to be superdiffusive, and has been conjectured to lie in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality class. Using a kinetic theory of transport, we compute the KPZ coupling strength for the Heisenberg chain as a function of temperature, directly from microscopics; the results agree well with density-matrix renormalization group simulations. We establish a rigorous quantum-classical correspondence between the "giant…
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