- Accepted Paper
Fate of diffusion under integrability breaking of classical integrable magnets
Phys. Rev. B - Accepted 28 October, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/r7zx-f29w
Phys. Rev. B - Accepted 28 October, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/r7zx-f29w
Diffusive transport is a ubiquitous phenomenon, yet the microscopic origin of diffusion in interacting physical systems remains a challenging question, irrespective of whether quantum effects are dominant or not. In this work, we study infinite temperature spin diffusion in a classical integrable, space-time discrete version of anisotropic Landau-Lifshitz magnet in the easy-axis regime, subjected to integrability-breaking perturbations. Our numerical results based on large-scale simulations reveal i) a sharp change in the spin diffusion constant as a function of perturbation strength in the thermodynamic limit and ii) a crossover from non-Gaussian to Gaussian statistics of magnetization transfer reflected in higher order cumulants under integrability breaking. Both our observations hint at the presence of non-trivial diffusion mechanism inherent to integrable systems.
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