Asymptotic quantum many-body localization from thermal disorder

DOI10.1007/S00220-014-2116-8zbMATH Open1309.82010arXiv1308.6263OpenAlexW3105363476MaRDI QIDQ462883FDOQ462883

Authors: W. De Roeck, François Huveneers 

Publication date: 22 October 2014

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a quantum lattice system with infinite-dimensional on-site Hilbert space, very similar to the Bose-Hubbard model. We investigate many-body localization in this model, induced by thermal fluctuations rather than disorder in the Hamiltonian. We provide evidence that the Green-Kubo conductivity $$, defined as the time-integrated current autocorrelation function, decays faster than any polynomial in the inverse temperature $$ as $$. More precisely, we define approximations $$ to $$ by integrating the current-current autocorrelation function up to a large but finite time $au$ and we rigorously show that $$ vanishes as $$, for any $n,minmathbbN$ such that $m-n$ is sufficiently large.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.6263

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zbMATH Keywords

decay of correlationscluster expansioninvariant subspaceseigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH)Green-Kubo conductivitylocalized phasemany body localizationmetal-insulator transitionperturbative diagonalizationpolymer representationsquantum lattice systemresonant Hamiltonianthermal disorder

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

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