Kardar-Parisi-Zhang physics in the quantum Heisenberg magnet

Understand

Equilibrium spatio-temporal correlation functions are central to understanding weak nonequilibrium physics.

• In certain local one-dimensional classical systems with three conservation laws they show universal features.
• Namely, fluctuations around ballistically propagating sound modes can be described by the celebrated Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality class.
• Can such universality class be found also in quantum systems? By unambiguously demonstrating that the KPZ scaling function describes magnetization dynamics in the SU(2) symmetric Heisenberg spin chain we show, for the first time, that this is so.