Dynamics of many-body delocalization in the time-dependent Hartree-Fock approximation

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2021.168486MaRDI QIDQ2063531zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paul Pöpperl, Elmer V. H. Doggen, Jonas F. Karcher, A. D. Mirlin, Konstantin S. Tikhonov

Publication date 11 January 2022

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07018

zbMATH Keywords

Griffiths effectsHartree-Fock approximationlow-dimensional systemsmany-body localizationspinless Fermi-Hubbard model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice dynamics; integrable lattice equations (37K60) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Dynamics of disordered systems (random Ising systems, etc.) in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C44)

Abstract: We explore dynamics of disordered and quasi-periodic interacting lattice models using a self-consistent time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) approximation, accessing both large systems (up to $L=400$ sites) and very long times (up to $t=10^5$). We find that, in the $toinfty$ limit, the many-body localization (MBL) is always destroyed within the TDHF approximation. At the same time, this approximation provides important information on the long-time character of dynamics in the ergodic side of the MBL transition. Specifically, for one-dimensional (1D) disordered chains, we find slow power-law transport up to the longest times, supporting the rare-region (Griffiths) picture. The information on this subdiffusive dynamics is obtained by the analysis of three different observables - temporal decay $$ of real-space and energy-space imbalances as well as domain wall melting - which all yield consistent results. For two-dimensional (2D) systems, the decay is faster than a power law, in consistency with theoretical predictions that $$ grows as $logt$ for the decay governed by rare regions. At longest times and moderately strong disorder, $$ approaches the limiting value $$ corresponding to 2D diffusion. In quasi-periodic (Aubry-Andr'e) 1D systems, where rare regions are absent, we find considerably faster decay that reaches the ballistic value $$, which provides further support to the Griffiths picture of the slow transport in random systems.

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