Quantum spin chains with various defects

DOI10.1002/1521-3889(200212)11:12%3C901::AID-ANDP901%3E3.0.CO;2-IzbMATH Open1010.82506arXivcond-mat/0201390OpenAlexW2002717112MaRDI QIDQ4803307FDOQ4803307

Authors: Cosima Schuster, Ulrich Eckern 

Publication date: 2 April 2003

Abstract: Using the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method, we study the quantum coherence in one-dimensional disordered Fermi systems. We consider in detail spinless fermions on a ring, and compare the influence of several kinds of impurities in a gapless and a dimerized, gapped system. In the translation-invariant system a so-called site-impurity, which can be realized by a local potential or a change of one link, increases for repulsive interaction and decreases for attractive interaction. The weakening of two neighboring bonds, which is a realization of a so-called bond-impurity, on the other hand, is healed for repulsive interaction, but enhanced for intermediate attractive interactions. This leads to strong suppression of the quantum coherence measured by the phase sensitivity, but not to localization. Adding a local distortion to a dimerized system we find that even the presence of a single site-impurity increases the metallic region found in the dimerized model. For a strong dimerization and a high barrier, an additional sharp maximum, even seen for systems with about 100 sites, occurs in the phase sensitivity. A bond-impurity in the dimerized system also opens a small metallic window in the otherwise isolating regime.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0201390

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum spin systemsdisordered wires

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

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• Antiresonance and interaction-induced localization in spin and qubit chains with defects
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