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Many-body localization transition from flatband fine-tuning

Statistical Mechanics 2022-02-09 v1

Abstract

Translationally invariant flatband Hamiltonians with interactions lead to a many-body localization transition. Our models are obtained from single particle lattices hosting a mix of flat and dispersive bands, and equipped with fine-tuned two--body interactions. Fine-tuning of the interaction results in an extensive set of local conserved charges and a fragmentation of the Hilbert space into irreducible sectors. In each sector, the conserved charges originate from the flatband and act as an effective disorder inducing a transition between ergodic and localized phases upon variation of the interaction strength. Such fine-tuning is possible in arbitrary lattice dimensions and for any many-body statistics. We present computational evidence for this transition with spinless fermions.

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@article{arxiv.2104.11055,
  title  = {Many-body localization transition from flatband fine-tuning},
  author = {Carlo Danieli and Alexei Andreanov and Sergej Flach},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.11055},
  year   = {2022}
}
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