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Explicit Local Integrals of Motion for the Many-Body Localized State

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2016-01-13 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

Recently, it has been suggested that the Many-Body Localized phase can be characterized by local integrals of motion. Here we introduce a Hilbert space preserving renormalization scheme that iteratively finds such integrals of motion exactly. Our method is based on the consecutive action of a similarity transformation using displacement operators. We show, as a proof of principle, localization and the delocalization transition in interacting fermion chains with random onsite potentials. Our scheme of consecutive displacement transformations can be used to study Many Body Localization in any dimension, as well as disorder-free Hamiltonians.

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@article{arxiv.1507.07276,
  title  = {Explicit Local Integrals of Motion for the Many-Body Localized State},
  author = {Louk Rademaker and Miguel Ortuño},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.07276},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

5 pages, 2 figures, and Supplementary Information. Second version contains new numerical results