Undamped Bloch Oscillations in the $U\rightarrow \infty$ one-dimensional Hubbard model

Abstract

The $U\rightarrow +\infty$ one-dimensional Hubbard model in an electric field has be exactly solved, with an emphasis on the charge current. It is found that undamped Bloch oscillations extensively exist in the system. Such conclusion has also been discussed for more general cases and we find that it is closely related to the temporal periodicity of the model Hamiltonian in electric field, rather than to the integrability of the model. As a comparison, we have also studied a model of electrons with $\delta$-function interactions in continuous space, which is closely related to the Hubbard model, but is non-integrable; and we find that the charge current strangely shows a dissipationless behaior which is comparable with the undamped Bloch oscillations.