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Quantum chaos challenges many-body localization
ID Šuntajs, Jan (Author), ID Bonča, Janez (Author), ID Prosen, Tomaž (Author), ID Vidmar, Lev (Author)

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Abstract
Characterizing states of matter through the lens of their ergodic properties is a fascinating new direction of research. In the quantum realm, the many-body localization (MBL) was proposed to be the paradigmatic ergodicity breaking phenomenon, which extends the concept of Anderson localization to interacting systems. At the same time, random matrix theory has established a powerful framework for characterizing the onset of quantum chaos and ergodicity (or the absence thereof) in quantum many-body systems. Here we numerically study the spectral statistics of disordered interacting spin chains, which represent prototype models expected to exhibit MBL. We study the ergodicity indicator $g=\mathrm{log}_{10}(t_H/t_{Th})$, which is defined through the ratio of two characteristic many-body time scales, the Thouless time $t_{Th}$ and the Heisenberg time $t_H$, and hence resembles the logarithm of the dimensionless conductance introduced in the context of Anderson localization. We argue that the ergodicity breaking transition in interacting spin chains occurs when both time scales are of the same order, $t_{Th} \approx t_H$, and g becomes a system-size independent constant. Hence, the ergodicity breaking transition in many-body systems carries certain analogies with the Anderson localization transition. Intriguingly, using a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless correlation length we observe a scaling solution of g across the transition, which allows for detection of the crossing point in finite systems. We discuss the observation that scaled results in finite systems by increasing the system size exhibit a flow towards the quantum chaotic regime.

Language:English
Keywords:quantum statistical mechanics, quantum chaos
Typology:1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:FMF - Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Publication status:Published
Publication version:Author Accepted Manuscript
Year:2020
Number of pages:Str. 062144-1-062144-12
Numbering:Vol. 102, iss. 6
PID:20.500.12556/RUL-124262 This link opens in a new window
UDC:536.93
ISSN on article:2470-0045
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevE.102.062144 This link opens in a new window
COBISS.SI-ID:46785795 This link opens in a new window
Publication date in RUL:13.01.2021
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Title:Physical review
Shortened title:Phys. rev., E
Publisher:American Physical Society
ISSN:2470-0045
COBISS.SI-ID:2048366611 This link opens in a new window

Secondary language

Language:Slovenian
Keywords:kvantna statistična mehanika, kvantni kaos

Projects

Funder:EC - European Commission
Funding programme:H2020
Project number:694544
Name:Open Many-body Non-Equilibrium Systems
Acronym:OMNES

Funder:ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
Project number:P1-0044
Name:Teorija trdnih snovi in statistična fizika

Funder:ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
Project number:P1-0402
Name:Matematična fizika

Funder:ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
Project number:J1-1696
Name:Diagnoza neravnovesne kvantne materije

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