Revisiting boundary-driven method for transport: Finite-size effects and the role of system-bath coupling

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16528v1
• Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 12:35:03 GMT
• Title: Revisiting boundary-driven method for transport: Finite-size effects and the role of system-bath coupling
• Authors: Mariel Kempa, Markus Kraft, Sourav Nandy, Jacek Herbrych, Jiaozi Wang, Jochen Gemmer, Robin Steinigeweg,
• Abstract summary: We compare and contrasting the dc diffusion constant $mathcalD_textdc$ computed from two approaches.<n>We find a clear mismatch between the two, with $mathcalD_textdc$ exhibiting a strong dependence on the system-bath coupling.<n>As a practical resolution, we advocate computing only time-dependent transport coefficients within the boundary-driven framework.
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• Abstract: Understanding transport in interacting quantum many-body systems is a central challenge in condensed matter and statistical physics. Numerical studies typically rely on two main approaches: Dynamics of linear-response functions in closed systems and Markovian dynamics governed by master equations for boundary-driven open systems. While the equivalence of their dynamical behavior has been explored in recent studies, a systematic comparison of the transport coefficients obtained from these two classes of methods remains an open question. Here, we address this gap by comparing and contrasting the dc diffusion constant $\mathcal{D}_{\text{dc}}$ computed from the aforementioned two approaches. We find a clear mismatch between the two, with $\mathcal{D}_{\text{dc}}$ exhibiting a strong dependence on the system-bath coupling for the boundary-driven technique, highlighting fundamental limitations of such a method in calculating the transport coefficients related to asymptotic dynamical behavior of the system. We trace the origin of this mismatch to the incorrect order of limits of time $t \rightarrow \infty$ and system size $L\rightarrow \infty$, which we argue to be intrinsic to boundary-driven setups. As a practical resolution, we advocate computing only time-dependent transport coefficients within the boundary-driven framework, which show excellent agreement with those obtained from the Kubo formalism based on closed-system dynamics, up to a timescale set by the system size. This leads us to interpret the sensitivity of the dc diffusion constant on the system-bath coupling strength in an open system as a potential diagnostic for finite-size effects.

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