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Mobility edge in long-range interacting many-body localized systems

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2023-02-02 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons Quantum Physics

Abstract

As disorder strength increases in quantum many-body systems a new phase of matter, the so-called anybody localization, emerges across the whole spectrum. This transition is energy dependent, a phenomenon known as mobility edge, such that the mid-spectrum eigenstates tend to localize at larger values of disorder in comparison to eigenstates near the edges of the spectrum. Many-body localization becomes more sophisticated in long-range interacting systems. Here, by focusing on several quantities, we draw the phase diagram as a function of disorder strength and energy spectrum, for a various range of interactions. Regardless of the underlying transition type, either second-order or Kosterlitz-Thouless, our analysis consistently determines the mobility edge, i.e. the phase boundary across the spectrum. We show that long-range interaction enhances the localization effect and shifts the phase boundary towards smaller values of disorder. In addition, we establish a hierarchy among the studied quantities concerning their corresponding transition boundary and critical exponents. Interestingly, we show that deliberately discarding some information of the system can mitigate finite-size effects and provide results in line with the analytical predictions at the thermodynamic limit.

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@article{arxiv.2209.01337,
  title  = {Mobility edge in long-range interacting many-body localized systems},
  author = {Rozhin Yousefjani and Abolfazl Bayat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.01337},
  year   = {2023}
}

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10 pages, 6 Figures

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