Quasi-local conserved charges and spin transport in spin-$1$ integrable chains

TL;DR

This paper constructs a family of quasi-local conserved charges for the spin-1 ZF chain and demonstrates their role in proving ballistic spin transport at high temperature.

Contribution

It introduces a method to explicitly construct quasi-local conserved operators for the spin-1 ZF chain, extending techniques from the XXZ model.

Findings

Quasi-local charges are sufficient to prove non-zero high-temperature spin Drude weight.

Constructed conserved operators are valid for a dense set of anisotropy parameters.

Established ballistic spin transport in the spin-1 ZF chain at high temperature.

Abstract

We consider the integrable one-dimensional spin-$1$ chain defined by the Zamolodchikov-Fateev (ZF) Hamiltonian. The latter is parametrized, analogously to the XXZ spin-$1/2$ model, by a continuous anisotropy parameter and at the isotropic point coincides with the well-known spin-$1$ Babujian-Takhtajan Hamiltonian. Following a procedure recently developed for the XXZ model, we explicitly construct a continuous family of quasi-local conserved operators for the periodic spin-$1$ ZF chain. Our construction is valid for a dense set of commensurate values of the anisotropy parameter in the gapless regime where the isotropic point is excluded. Using the Mazur inequality, we show that, as for the XXZ model, these quasi-local charges are enough to prove that the high-temperature spin Drude weight is non-vanishing in the thermodynamic limit, thus establishing ballistic spin transport at high temperature.