Many-body localization due to random interactions
Piotr Sierant  1@  , Jakub Zakrzewski  1@  , Dominique Delande  2, *@  
1 : Jagiellonian University, Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics  (UJ)  -  Website
Lojasiewicza 11, 30-864 Krakow -  Poland
2 : Laboratoire Kastler Brossel  (LKB (Jussieu))  -  Website
Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) - Paris VI, CNRS : UMR8552, École normale supérieure [ENS] - Paris
Case 74 - Tour 12, 4 place Jussieu, F-75252 Paris CEDEX 05 -  France
* : Corresponding author

Many-body localized (MBL) systems, i.e. systems that do not thermally equilibrate
under their own dynamics but rather evolve in such a way that the memory
about local features of the initial state is preserved, have recently received
a lot of attention. We consider a system of ultracold atoms in one-dimensional optical
lattice with disordered on-site interparticle interactions. The MBL is found to occur in
the system as one increases the interactions.
The single-particle extended states are eigenstates in the absence of the disorder.
Therefore, the observed localization is an inherent effect of the interactions and thus
a genuine many-body effect. The localization is inspected by means
of eigenvalue statistics as well as by time propagation of initial states with density wave order.

arXiv:1607.00227, PRL submitted


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