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Transport and Temperature: Exact spectrum and Drude weight for the one-dimensional infinite-U Hubbard model

Shuo Liu, Yuhao Ma, Hitesh J. Changlani, Philip W. Phillips, and B. Andrei Bernevig

Phys. Rev. Lett. - Accepted 9 September, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/2fwz-cw5h

Abstract

Understanding charge transport in strongly correlated systems remains a central challenge in condensed matter physics, while exact analytical results for finite-temperature transport remain rare. Here, we investigate charge transport in the one-dimensional Hubbard model in the infinite-interaction limit. We first construct the exact energy spectrum and eigenstates. Building on these explicit eigenstates, we derive a closed-form analytical expression for the charge Drude weight at arbitrary temperatures in the hole-dilute limit with a fixed number of doped holes, as well as analytical expressions in the low- and high-temperature limits at fixed hole density. We further show that, at low temperatures, the leading correction to the charge Drude weight is linear in T when the number of holes is fixed, whereas it is quadratic in T when the hole density is fixed. This analytically controlled example highlights the importance of identifying the underlying thermodynamic trajectory when interpreting finite-size numerical studies of charge transport in more general models.

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