Many-body localization from dynamical gauge fields
- Creators
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Yao, Zhiyuan
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Liu, Chang
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Zhang, Pengfei
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Zhai, Hui
Abstract
A recent experiment [C. Schweizer, F. Grusdt, M. Berngruber, L. Barbiero, E. Demler, N. Goldman, I. Bloch, and M. Aidelsburger, Nat. Phys. 15, 1168 (2019)] has realized a dynamical gauge system with a ℤ₂ gauge symmetry in a double-well potential. In this work we propose a method to generalize this model from a single double well to a one-dimensional chain. We show that although there are no disordered potentials in the original model, the phenomenon of many-body localization can occur. The key ingredient is that different symmetry sectors with different local gauge charges play the role of different disorder configurations, which becomes clear after exactly mapping our model to a transverse Ising model in a random longitudinal field. We show that both the ergodic regime and the many-body localized regime exist in this model from four different metrics, which include level statistics, volume law versus area law of entanglement entropy of eigenstates, quench dynamics of entanglement entropy, and physical observables.
Additional Information
© 2020 American Physical Society. (Received 15 April 2020; accepted 8 September 2020; published 18 September 2020) This work is supported by Beijing Outstanding Young Scientist Program, MOST under Grant No. 2016YFA0301600 and NSFC Grant No. 11734010.Attached Files
Published - PhysRevB.102.104302.pdf
Submitted - 2003.12675.pdf
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20200924-144351451
- Ministry of Science and Technology (China)
- 2016YFA0301600
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- 11734010
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2020-09-24Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-16Created from EPrint's last_modified field
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- Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics