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Taming two interacting particles with disorder

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2019-12-25 v3

Abstract

We compute the scaling properties of the localization length ξ2\xi_2 of two interacting particles in a one-dimensional chain with diagonal disorder, and the connectivity properties of the Fock states. We analyze record large system sizes (up to N=20000N=20000) and disorder strengths (down to W=0.5W=0.5). We vary the energy EE and the on-site interaction strength uu. At a given disorder strength the largest enhancement of ξ2\xi_2 occurs for uu of the order of the single particle band width, and for two-particle states with energies at the center of the spectrum, E=0E=0. We observe a crossover in the scaling of ξ2\xi_2 with the single particle localization length ξ1\xi_1 into the asymptotic regime for ξ1>100\xi_1 > 100 (W<1.0W < 1.0). This happens due to the recovery of translational invariance and momentum conservation rules in the matrix elements of interconnected Fock eigenstates for u=0u=0. The entrance into the asymptotic scaling is manifested through a nonlinear scaling function ξ2/ξ1=F(uξ1)\xi_2/\xi_1=F(u\xi_1).

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@article{arxiv.1908.06643,
  title  = {Taming two interacting particles with disorder},
  author = {Diana Thongjaomayum and Alexei Andreanov and Thomas Engl and Sergej Flach},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.06643},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

7 pages, 8 figures

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