Exact Nonequilibrium Steady State of Open XXZ/XYZ Spin-1/2 Chain with Dirichlet Boundary Conditions

Phys Rev Lett. 2020 Apr 24;124(16):160403. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.160403.

Abstract

We investigate a dissipatively driven XYZ spin-1/2 chain in the Zeno limit of strong dissipation, described by the Lindblad master equation. The nonequilibrium steady state is expressed in terms of a matrix product ansatz using novel site-dependent Lax operators. The components of Lax operators satisfy a simple set of linear recurrence equations that generalize the defining algebraic relations of the quantum group U_{q}(sl_{2}). We reveal connection between the nonequilibrium steady state of the nonunitary dynamics and the respective integrable model with edge magnetic fields, described by coherent unitary dynamics.