English

Mobility edge of two interacting particles in three-dimensional random potentials

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2019-07-19 v2 Quantum Gases

Abstract

We investigate Anderson transitions for a system of two particles moving in a three-dimensional disordered lattice and subject to on-site (Hubbard) interactions of strength U. The two-body problem is exactly mapped into an effective single-particle equation for the center of mass motion, whose localization properties are studied numerically. We show that, for zero total energy of the pair, the transition occurs in a regime where all single-particle states are localized. In particular the critical disorder strength exhibits a non-monotonic behavior as a function of |U|, increasing sharply for weak interactions and converging to a finite value in the strong coupling limit. Within our numerical accuracy, short-range interactions do not affect the universality class of the transition.

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@article{arxiv.1903.06214,
  title  = {Mobility edge of two interacting particles in three-dimensional random potentials},
  author = {Filippo Stellin and Giuliano Orso},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.06214},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

accepted version with new discussion on density of states of effective model, references added

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