Singular transport in non-equilibrium strongly internal-coupled 1D tilted field spin-1/2 chain

Abstract

Non-equilibrium spin-chain systems have been attracting increasing interest in energy transport. This work studies a one-dimensional non-equilibrium Ising chain immersed in a tilted magnetic field, where every spin contacts a Boson reservoir with the dissipative system–environment interaction. We analytically investigate the dynamics and the steady-state energy transport taking advantage of the Born–Markov-secular master equation. In the longitudinal field, one can find that the non-dissipative N′ spins decompose the spin chain into N′ + 1 independent subchains and block the heat currents from the hot end to the cool end. Moreover, for the non-dissipative μth spin, its nearest two bulk spins become the nodal spins in the subchains and have the corresponding energy correction of ±Jμ−1,μ and ±Jμ,μ+1 depending on the excited/ground state of the μth spin. Therefore, a magnetically controlled heat modulator can be designed by adjusting the direction of the magnetic field in which the non-dissipative spin is located. For the transverse field case, the whole Hilbert space of the chain can always be divided into two independent subspaces regardless of whether the bulk spin is dissipative. This work provides new insight into the dynamics and energy transport of the dissipative Ising model.