Absence of many‐body localization in a continuum

DOI10.1002/ANDP.201600365zbMATH Open1370.81234arXiv1611.05895OpenAlexW2553499201MaRDI QIDQ5357198

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Publication date: 14 September 2017

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Abstract: We show that many-body localization, which exists in tight-binding models, is unstable in a continuum. Irrespective of the dimensionality of the system, many-body localization does not survive the unbounded growth of the single-particle localization length with increasing energy that is characteristic of the continuum limit. The system remains delocalized down to arbitrarily small temperature $T$, although its dynamics slows down as $T$ decreases. Remarkably, the conductivity vanishes with decreasing $T$ faster than in the Arrhenius law. The system can be characterized by an effective $T$-dependent single-particle mobility edge which diverges in the limit of $To0$. Delocalization is driven by interactions between hot electrons above the mobility edge and the "bath" of thermal electrons in the vicinity of the Fermi level.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.05895

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