Nonequilibrium full counting statistics of multicomponent strongly-interacting quantum gases with defects

Abstract

We investigate the full counting statistics of a one-dimensional multicomponent impenetrable gas released from a bipartite state in the presence of a local defect. Spin--charge separation reduces the multivariate generating function to an exact Fredholm determinant whose kernel is built from time-evolved single-particle orbitals. Expressing these orbitals in terms of scattering data gives access to both transient dynamics and the nonequilibrium steady state. We derive the leading long-time asymptotics and identify persistent oscillations in densities and currents caused by multiple bound states at the junction. We argue that interactions between components lead to a linear low-temperature correction to the current, in contrast to the quadratic correction in the single-component case. At equilibrium, we obtain the M-Wright distribution of spin transfer with $t^{1/4}$ scaling.