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http://hdl.handle.net/1843/58545| Type: | Artigo de Periódico |
| Title: | Energy current manipulation and reversal of rectification in graded spin chains |
| Authors: | Alberto Luiz de Paula Júnior Emmanuel Araújo Pereira Raphael Campos Drumond Maria Carolina de Oliveira Aguiar |
| Abstract: | This work is devoted to the investigation of nontrivial transport properties in many-body quantum systems. Precisely, we study transport in the steady state of spin-1/2 Heisenberg XXZ chains, driven out of equilibrium by two magnetic baths at their end points. We take graded versions of the model, i.e. asymmetric chains in which some structure gradually changes in space. We investigate how we can manipulate and control the energy and spin currents of such chains by tuning external and/or inner parameters. In particular, we describe the occurrence of energy current rectification and its reversal due to the application of external magnetic fields. We show that, after carefully chosen inner parameters for the system, by turning on an external magnetic field we can find spin and energy currents propagating in different directions. More interestingly, we may find cases in which rectifications of energy and spin currents occur in opposite directions, i.e. if the energy current is larger when flowing from left to right side, then the spin current is larger if it flows from right to left side. We still describe situations with inversion of the energy current direction as we increase the system asymmetry. We stress that our work aims the development of theoretical knowledge as well as the stimulation of future experimental applications. |
| Subject: | Cadeia de spins Retificação Energia |
| language: | eng |
| metadata.dc.publisher.country: | Brasil |
| Publisher: | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais |
| Publisher Initials: | UFMG |
| metadata.dc.publisher.department: | ICX - DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA ICX - DEPARTAMENTO DE MATEMÁTICA |
| Rights: | Acesso Restrito |
| metadata.dc.identifier.doi: | https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/ab6b8c |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1843/58545 |
| Issue Date: | 2020 |
| metadata.dc.url.externa: | https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-648X/ab6b8c |
| metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: | Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter |
| Appears in Collections: | Artigo de Periódico |
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