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Many-body dynamical localisation of coupled quantum kicked rotors

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2019-01-29 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

The quantum motion of NN coupled kicked rotors is mapped to an interacting NN-particle Anderson-Aubry-Andreˊ\'e tight-binding problem supporting many-body localised (MBL) phases. Interactions in configuration space are known to be insufficient for destroying Anderson localisation in a system in the MBL phase. The mapping we establish here predicts that a similar effect takes place in momentum space and determines the quantum dynamics of the coupled kicked rotors. Due to the boundedness of the Floquet quasi-energy spectrum there exists limitations on the interacting lattice models that can be mapped to quantum kicked rotors; in particular, no extensive observable can be mapped in the thermodynamic limit.

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@article{arxiv.1901.09362,
  title  = {Many-body dynamical localisation of coupled quantum kicked rotors},
  author = {L. A. Toikka and A. Andreanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.09362},
  year   = {2019}
}