{ "id": "1505.07150", "version": "v1", "published": "2015-05-26T22:27:00.000Z", "updated": "2015-05-26T22:27:00.000Z", "title": "On transport properties of isotropic quasiperiodic $XY$ spin chains", "authors": [ "Ilya Kachkovskiy" ], "comment": "13 pages", "categories": [ "math-ph", "math.MP", "math.SP" ], "abstract": "We consider isotropic $XY$ spin chains whose magnetic potentials are quasiperiodic and the effective one-particle Hamiltonians have absolutely continuous spectra. For a wide class of such $XY$ spin chains, we obtain lower bounds on their Lieb--Robinson velocities in terms of group velocities of their effective Hamiltonians: $\\mathfrak v\\ge\\mathrm{ess\\,sup}_{[0,1]} \\frac{2}{\\pi}\\frac{dE}{dN},$ where $E$ is considered as a function of the integrated density of states.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2015-05-26T22:27:00.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "spin chains", "isotropic quasiperiodic", "transport properties", "group velocities", "magnetic potentials" ], "publication": { "doi": "10.1007/s00220-015-2474-x", "journal": "Communications in Mathematical Physics", "year": 2015, "month": "Oct", "pages": 222 }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 13, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2015CMaPh.tmp..222K" } } }