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Many body localization and delocalization in the two dimensional continuum

Statistical Mechanics 2014-12-02 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Quantum Gases Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

I discuss whether localization in the two dimensional continuum can be stable in the presence of short range interactions. I conclude that, for an impurity model of disorder, if the system is prepared below a critical temperature T<TcT < T_c, then perturbation theory about the localized phase converges almost everywhere. As a result, the system is at least asymptotically localized, and perhaps even truly many body localized, depending on how certain rare regions behave. Meanwhile, for T>TcT > T_c, perturbation theory fails to converge, which I interpret as interaction mediated delocalization. I calculate the boundary of the region of perturbative stability of localization in the interaction strength - temperature plane. I also discuss the behavior in a speckle disorder (relevant for cold atoms experiments) and conclude that perturbation theory about the non-interacting phase diverges for arbitrarily weak interactions with speckle disorder, suggesting that many body localization in the two dimensional continuum cannot survive away from the impurity limit.

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@article{arxiv.1408.6235,
  title  = {Many body localization and delocalization in the two dimensional continuum},
  author = {Rahul Nandkishore},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.6235},
  year   = {2014}
}
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