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Absence of full many-body localization in the disordered Hubbard chain

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2017-01-26 v2

Abstract

We present numerical results within the one-dimensional disordered Hubbard model for several characteristic indicators of the many-body localization (MBL). Considering traditionally studied charge disorder (i.e., the same disorder strength for both spin orientations) we find that even at strong disorder all signatures consistently show that while charge degree of freedom is non-ergodic, the spin is delocalized and ergodic. This indicates the absence of the full MBL in the model that has been simulated in recent cold-atom experiments. Full localization can be restored if spin-dependent disorder is used instead.

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@article{arxiv.1610.02267,
  title  = {Absence of full many-body localization in the disordered Hubbard chain},
  author = {P. Prelovšek and O. S. Barišić and M. Žnidarič},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.02267},
  year   = {2017}
}

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v2: published version; includes additional comments and few references