Understanding the metal-insulator transition in disordered many-fermion systems, both with and without interactions, is one of the most challenging and consequential problems in condensed matter physics. In this paper, we address this issue from the perspective of the modern theory of the insulating state (MTIS), which has already proven to be effective for band and Mott insulators in clean systems. First, we consider noninteracting systems with different types of aperiodic external potentials: uncorrelated disorder (one-dimensional Anderson model), deterministic disorder (Aubry-Andre Hamiltonian and its modification including next-nearest-neighbor hopping), and disorder with long-range correlations (self-affine potential). We show how the many-body localization tensor defined within the MTIS may be used as a powerful probe to discriminate the insulating and the metallic phases, and to locate the transition point. Then, we investigate the effect of weak repulsive interactions in the Aubry-Andre Hamiltonian, a model which describes a recent cold-atoms experiment. By treating the weak interactions within a mean-field approximation
Kohn's localization in disordered fermionic systems with and without interactions
Pilati, Sebastiano
2015-01-01
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Understanding the metal-insulator transition in disordered many-fermion systems, both with and without interactions, is one of the most challenging and consequential problems in condensed matter physics. In this paper, we address this issue from the perspective of the modern theory of the insulating state (MTIS), which has already proven to be effective for band and Mott insulators in clean systems. First, we consider noninteracting systems with different types of aperiodic external potentials: uncorrelated disorder (one-dimensional Anderson model), deterministic disorder (Aubry-Andre Hamiltonian and its modification including next-nearest-neighbor hopping), and disorder with long-range correlations (self-affine potential). We show how the many-body localization tensor defined within the MTIS may be used as a powerful probe to discriminate the insulating and the metallic phases, and to locate the transition point. Then, we investigate the effect of weak repulsive interactions in the Aubry-Andre Hamiltonian, a model which describes a recent cold-atoms experiment. By treating the weak interactions within a mean-field approximationFile | Dimensione | Formato | |
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