Heat transport via low-dimensional systems with broken time-reversal symmetry
Shuji Tamaki, Makiko Sasada, and Keiji Saito

TL;DR
This paper investigates heat transport in low-dimensional systems with broken time-reversal symmetry, revealing a new universality class and the impact of magnetic fields on sound wave propagation and thermal conductivity.
Contribution
It introduces an exactly solvable model demonstrating a novel universality class in heat transport with broken time-reversal symmetry.
Findings
Absence of sound waves in certain charge configurations.
Altered relation between correlation functions and thermal conductivity.
Identification of a new universality class in heat transport.
Abstract
We consider heat transport through systems with broken time-reversal symmetry. We apply strong magnetic fields to weakly charged particle systems, where the dynamics are dominated by the Lorentz force and spring forces. The standard momentum conservation is not satisfied and the sound wave disappears depending on the charge structure. We introduce an exactly solvable model and demonstrate the appearance of a new universality class. The absence of sound waves affects the relation between equilibrium correlation and the diverging thermal conductivity in the open system.
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Heat transport via low-dimensional systems with broken time-reversal symmetry
Shuji Tamaki
Department of Physics, Keio University, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan
Makiko Sasada
Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Tokyo 153-8914, Japan
Keiji Saito
Department of Physics, Keio University, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan
Abstract
We consider heat transport via systems with broken time-reversal symmetry. We apply magnetic fields to the one-dimensional charged particle systems with transverse motions. The standard momentum conservation is not satisfied. To focus on this effect clearly, we introduce a solvable model. We exactly demonstrate that the anomalous transport with a new exponent can appear. We numerically show the violation of the standard relation between the power-law decay in the equilibrium correlation and the diverging exponent of the thermal conductivity in the open system.
pacs:
05.40.-a, 02.50.-r,63.22.+m, 44.10.+i
Introduction.— It is generally believed that heat conduction in low-dimensional nonlinear systems is anomalous from many theoretical book ; dhar08 ; LLP03 ; LLP97 ; grass02 ; casati03 ; mai07 ; sd10 ; delfini06 ; pereverez03 ; narayan ; wang04 ; lukkarinen ; lee ; beijeren ; spohn13 ; BBOlt ; BBOfp ; mendl13 ; mendl14 ; levy ; temp ; invariant and experimental studies chang1 ; chang2 ; Xu2014 . In a one-dimensional system of particles connected at the ends to heat baths with a small temperature difference , the thermal conductivity is defined as , where is the steady state current per site. The anomalous heat transport is given by the divergence of with increasing system size:
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The anomalous behavior is related to the equilibrium current correlation with slow decay in a closed system:
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where is the total energy current and is the equilibrium average. A slow decay leads to the diverging thermal conductivity through the Green-Kubo formula.
Generally, in nonlinear chains, there are several conserved quantities in the periodic boundary condition, i.e., energy, momentum, and the so-called stretch variables beijeren ; spohn13 . These conserved quantities are key-ingredients in understanding the anomalous behavior. Recently, there has been significant progress in theories on the equilibrium current correlation by considering the conserved quantities. This remarkable progress included finding an exactly solvable model with anomalous behavior, which is now called the momentum exchange (ME) model BBOlt ; BBOfp . This model contains hybrid dynamics of deterministic dynamics and stochastic “conservative” noise, which conserves the three variables. Exact analysis of the current correlation function shows BBOlt ; BBOfp . The ME model has so far made fundamental contributions to explaining many properties, such as the anomalous heat diffusion levy , temperature profile temp , and steady state measure under finite heat flowinvariant .
Another area of progress is the nonlinear fluctuating hydrodynamic theory (NFHT) applicable to general nonlinear chains beijeren ; spohn13 ; mendl13 ; mendl14 . The NFHT addresses the hydrodynamical description for conserved quantities. The dynamics of the conserved quantities are transformed into that of two sound modes (left- and right-going sounds) and one heat mode. The sound modes significantly affect the heat mode and play a critical role in the anomalous behavior. Hence, it is now recognized that the properties of sound waves are crucial for the in-depth understanding of heat conduction. One intriguing observation of the sound mode is its deep connection to the Kadar-Parisi-Zhang dynamics spohn13 ; mendl13 . Based on the mode-coupling analysis, the universality class of the power-law decay exponent is classified into or spohn13 ; mendl13 .
In this paper, we consider heat transfer via systems with broken time-reversal symmetry. We apply magnetic fields to one-dimensional charged systems with transverse motions (such as polymer wang04 ; savin ). The Lorentz force bends the directions of particle motions, and hence the standard momentum conservation is not satisfied. In order to focus on this effect, we consider the simplest situation where strong magnetic fields are applied to weakly charged particles such that the dynamics are dominated only by the Lorentz force and spring forces connecting the particles. The Hamiltonian is described by
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where we set the masses to unity. The vector specifies the position of the th particle, is the stretch vector defined below in (5), and is the spring potential between the nearest neighbor sites. The variables and are, respectively, the canonical momentum and the gauge potential, and is the charge of the th particle. The actual velocity is given by . We consider the static magnetic field , and then the dynamics are given by the Lorentz force and spring forces
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From these dynamics, one finds that each summation of the following local variables is conserved:
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where and are, respectively, the local stretch and energy variables. The variable is a pseudomomentum johnson83 which is not equivalent to the canonical momentum footnote1 . Hence, the standard momentum conservation is replaced by the conservation of this variable. From this modification, the dynamics should be newly categorized in the context of heat conduction and careful analysis on the exponent is required.
We note here that for nonlinear systems, it is generally difficult to obtain accurate values of the exponent even in large-scale numerical calculations. Hence, we introduce a solvable model by extending the ME model to the case of finite magnetic fields. Then, we clearly argue that the magnetic fields can generate a new exponent.
Velocity exchange models.— An exactly solvable model that we introduce is a harmonic chain with the potential , where the time evolution is composed of the deterministic dynamics (4) and conservative noises that conserve each summation of (5)-(7). The change of variables from time to is given by
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where . The magnetic field is applied in the -direction and we consider only motions of particles in the -plane, which are relevant to the magnetic field. The vector is the velocity vector of the th particle and is the stretch vector defined in Eq.(5). We consider the periodic boundary condition imposing and with an even number (See Fig.1). The variable takes the value [math] or with the Poisson process satisfying the noise average . Hence, the noises stochastically exchange velocities between the nearest neighbor sites. One can easily check that each summation of the variables (5)-(7) is conserved. When we switch off the magnetic field, the dynamics for variables of and components independently follow the original ME dynamics.
We consider two cases: case (I) with uniform charge and case (II) with alternate charge . By employing the deterministic dynamics only, one can derive the dispersion relation for each case supple
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where the subscripts and indicate the two cases and is the wave number. From these expressions, the sound velocities are calculated using d\omega(k)/dk\bigr{|}_{k\to 0}. Case (I) has zero sound velocity while case (II) has a finite value of the velocity. We numerically check this by considering the space-time correlation of the local energy where is defined in Eq.(6) and . The symbol is the average over the canonical ensemble with temperature and the normalization . Here, the Boltzmann constant is set to unity. In Fig.2, we present numerical results for the system size with and . The figure clearly shows the absence of sound waves in case (I), while case (II) has finite sound propagation indicated by ballistic peaks. Thus, cases (I) and (II) have contrasting differences in the dynamics, and hence, we discuss heat conduction with broken time-reversal symmetry, comparing these cases.
Methods and main results of equilibrium correlation.— For zero magnetic field, the exponent is rigorously proved in Refs.BBOlt ; BBOfp . We now consider the case of finite magnetic fields. The continuity equation with respect to the local energy is expressed as , where is the accumulation up to time of the energy current measured between the and th sites:
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where is the Martingale noise defined as mathtext , and are the instantaneous currents from the deterministic dynamics and average stochastic noise, respectively. The third current is a current from the Martingale noise, whose contribution to the thermal conductivity is constant and the correlations between and vanish BBOlt ; BBOfp . Since does not generate power law behavior in the current correlation, we consider only the contribution of and as
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where and . We used , and the symbol denotes the average over the canonical ensemble as well as the average over noises.
We follow the technique developed in Refs.BBOlt ; BBOfp . We consider the Laplace transform
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where the operator is the time evolution operator given by , where and respectively correspond to the deterministic dynamics and conservative noises:
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Here, the function is an arbitrary function of and and is obtained from by exchanging the variables and .
The details to derive the function are provided in the supplementary material supple , and below we discuss physically crucial results. The Laplace transforms in the thermodynamic limit are given as follows:
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where the subscripts indicate two cases, and , , and . The asymptotic real-time representation is analyzed by the inverse Laplace transform, considering a small wave number for finite and , and one gets
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where are constant values which depend on . We now list physically crucial observations for these exact results. In both cases, power-law behavior exists. Eq.(23) includes the power law term with oscillation in time which rapidly decays for finite , and most importantly the new exponent appears. The new power-law decay exponent exists only for case (I), while case (II) has , which is the same exponent as for . This implies that the universality class depends on the charge structure of the system. These exact findings are the main results in this paper. A numerical evaluation of these observations is presented in Fig.3. Rapid decay with power law behavior are observed for any case. The numerical calculation accurately reproduces the known exponent for the case of zero magnetic field. In addition, one can clearly see that case (II) has the exponent , and case (I) has with oscillation in time. In the inset, a time-integral of the equilibrium correlation is used to check the exponent.
Numerical results of the exponent .— We next consider the exponent in Eq. (1) that is measured in the nonequilibrium steady state when the system is connected to thermal reservoirs. We use a numerical approach here. We attach the Nose-Hoover thermostat to the end particles Thijssen . The dynamics for the sites from to remains the same as Eqs.(8)-, while the boundary sites obey the following equations for velocities:
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where or . and are the reservoir’s temperatures at the first and the th particles, respectively. We show the system-size dependence of the thermal conductivity up to in Fig.4. Numerical error was smaller than the size of the points. The system size is sufficiently large to obtain the asymptotic behavior of the power law divergence. In the figure, the case with zero magnetic field and case (II) show , while the exponent in case (I) is neither nor . The best fit is . This again supports the fact that case (I) cannot be classified into a known universality class.
We consider the relationship between and . To our knowledge, a rigorous derivation of the relationship between and has never been made. Thus far, there is only a phenomenological interpretation of the case when the system has finite sound velocity. The argument is based on the modified Green-Kubo formula
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When the system has a finite sound velocity, one phenomenologically uses , where is the sound velocity, and obtains the relation . Although it is not derived rigorously, thus far, it seems to work well. In fact, the case of zero magnetic field and case (II) follow this relation. However, in case (I), where no sound wave exists, this relation is not applicable anymore. Numerical results indicate with . This is a nontrivial effect resulting from the absence of the sound wave.
Discussion.— In this paper, we studied the heat transfer in one-dimensional systems with broken time-reversal symmetry for the first time. We considered systems with very weak charges under a strong magnetic field so that the dynamics are dominated by the Lorentz force as well as the spring forces connecting particles. To clarify the argument on the exponent, we introduced an exactly solvable model in the spirit of the ME model. Based on this model, we found that a new power-law decay exponent can appear. We will report elsewhere on several other results including the effects of higher dimensions ss17 .
In systems without time-reversal symmetry, the standard fluctuating hydrodynamic theory is not applicable, as the Euler equations for conserved quantities are not closed due to the expression of the pseudomomentum. Physically, the magnetic field induces cyclotron motion and hence, the particles tend to be localized. Based on this, one might think that the conservation of pseudomomentum is irrelevant to macroscopic behavior and the system may exhibit diffusive heat conduction. We note that a recent non-acoustic model with momentum conservation shows diffusive transport komorowskiolla17 . The same conclusion had been speculated based on the mode-coupling argument for nonlinear systems with zero sound velocity in Ref.lee . However, our case showed that anomalous heat conduction robustly exists and the new power-law decay exponent can appear. In order to understand these nontrivial results, a precise description of the hydrodynamics is required.
The present model clearly shows that the absence of sound waves cause the violation of the usual relationship that is satisfied for systems with sound waves. An analytical derivation of based on the equilibrium correlation is difficult in the present study but is definitely an important open problem.
We thank Stefano Olla, Herbert Spohn and Yoshimasa Hidaka for useful discussions. KS was supported by JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research No. JP26400404 and No. JP16H02211. MS was supported by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) JP25800068.
I Notations
We here fix several notations to calculate the equilibrium correlation. Let be the -component of the position vector of the th particle , and be . We impose the periodic boundary condition:
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We note that for a given initial state, the following quantity is conserved.
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This conservation law follows the time-evolution . See Fig.5, which schematically depicts this situation. We define the following new variables
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These variables satisfy the following relations:
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II Dispersion relation
The dispersion relation is derived only from the deterministic dynamics. For case (I), the dynamics is given by
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where . By the Fourier transform, , where is the wave number . Then, we have the equation , where , and the matrix is given by
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The dispersion relation is given by the condition :
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The dispersion relation for case (II) is similarly given. The deterministic part in the dynamics is as follows:
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We define the Fourier transform for even and odd sites as
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Then, we have , where and
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From , the following dispersion relation is obtained
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III Calculation of and
The correlation function is given by
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where implies the average over canonical measure and noise average. Based on the relation (S.5), we decompose the correlation function into two terms
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The Laplace transform of the correlation function is then given by
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As we can see below in the detailed calculations for cases (I) and (II), the main contribution is from , while can be neglected. We note that the time evolution of the local current is driven by the systematic part and the Martingale part. The time evolution operator of the systematic part is denoted by in the main text. In general, the detailed expression of the Martingale part depends on the quantity that one considers. From the Martingale property, the Martingale term contributes only at on average over the noises.
We solve the functions and
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Then, we obtain the Laplace transform
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Here implies an average over the canonical average. Note that we have already taken the noise average using the Martingale property.
III.0.1 Case (I)
We first explain case (I) following the method in Ref.suppl-BBOfp . Since the energy current is a linear function with respect to , we can write the operator in the following form:
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where . We search for the solution of in the following form:
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where has the following symmetries for an arbitrary integer
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We substitute (S.32) into Eq.(S.28). Through straightforward calculation, the following equations are obtained:
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where and . From these, one can obtain unique solutions of the functions . We consider the discrete Fourier transform to solve the equations
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Then Eqs.(S.34)-(S.37) can be solved in Fourier space:
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where and are vectors given by and , respectively. The matrix is given by
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Note here that only the function has a finite contribution to the Laplace transform :
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where we used the symmetry (S.33) to write the expression solely in terms of the stretch variables and the translational invariance in the equilibrium correlation between stretches. We define the function as
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We note here that the following relation from the simple calculation is satisfied, regardless of :
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From this, we have the Fourier transform for the function
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Hence, we arrive at the expression for
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We consider the inverse Laplace transform for to get .
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We note that the poles in the function are given by
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where take values of . For finite and , and for a small wave number , the expansion for the poles can be obtained as
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The poles and provide the oscillation damping , and the pole provides the decay . The power law is obtained from the pole .
We finally consider . From the simple calculation for Eq.(S.29), we can check that the following expression is a solution of :
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From this expression, is proportional to or , which is , and hence it is negligible in the thermodynamic limit.
III.0.2 Case (II)
The calculation for case (II) is essentially the same as for case (I). Note here that the operator is given by
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We formulate an ansatz for
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where we impose the same symmetry as in Eq.(S.33). By direct calculation, the following equations are obtained
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where , and . We define the discrete Fourier transform
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Eliminating and in Eqs.(S.69), we get the equation for the vectors and , and the matrix is given by
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where . We note that the Laplace transform is given solely by the function and obtain the following expression
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where the function is the same as that in case (I) and the Fourier transform is given by Eq.(S.48). We used , and . We analyzed the poles in the denominator by using Mathematica. The expressions for poles for a small wave number and finite are given as
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where . The power law decay is given by the pole which gives in .
We finally consider . One can directly check that the following expression is the solution of
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From this expression, is proportional to or , which is , and hence it is negligible in the thermodynamic limit.
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