Interacting particles at a metal-insulator transition
Abstract
We study the influence of many-particle interaction in a system which, in the single particle case, exhibits a metal-insulator transition induced by a finite amount of onsite pontential fluctuations. Thereby, we consider the problem of interacting particles in the one-dimensional quasiperiodic Aubry-Andre chain. We employ the density-matrix renormalization scheme to investigate the finite particle density situation. In the case of incommensurate densities, the expected transition from the single-particle analysis is reproduced. Generally speaking, interaction does not alter the incommensurate transition. For commensurate densities, we map out the entire phase diagram and find that the transition into a metallic state occurs for attractive interactions and infinite small fluctuations -- in contrast to the case of incommensurate densities. Our results for commensurate densities also show agreement with a recent analytic renormalization group approach.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0102251,
title = {Interacting particles at a metal-insulator transition},
author = {Cosima Schuster and Rudolf A. Roemer and Michael Schreiber},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0102251},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages, 8 figures The original paper was splitted and rewritten. This is the published version of the DMRG part of the original paper