2019
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.99.121110
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Instability of subdiffusive spin dynamics in strongly disordered Hubbard chain

Abstract: We study spin transport in a Hubbard chain with strong, random, on-site potential and with spin-dependent hopping integrals, tσ. For the the SU(2) symmetric case, t ↑ = t ↓ , such model exhibits only partial many-body localization with localized charge and (delocalized) subdiffusive spin excitations. Here, we demonstrate that breaking the SU(2) symmetry by even weak spinasymmetry, t ↑ = t ↓ , localizes spins and restores full many-body localization. To this end we derive an effective spin model, where the spin… Show more

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“…The corresponding spin dynamics is also interesting. As in the standard MBL case, we observe a subdiffusive decay of initial spin configuration for the initial staggered density-wave state, characteristic of the remaining SU(2) symmetry of the problem [51][52][53]. Visualization of this effect can be seen from the profile of spin degrees of freedom in Fig.…”
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“…The corresponding spin dynamics is also interesting. As in the standard MBL case, we observe a subdiffusive decay of initial spin configuration for the initial staggered density-wave state, characteristic of the remaining SU(2) symmetry of the problem [51][52][53]. Visualization of this effect can be seen from the profile of spin degrees of freedom in Fig.…”
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confidence: 55%
“…The results suggest that a sufficiently strong random potential localizes the charge degree of freedom, whereas spin excitations apperently exhibit a subdiffusive transport, i.e. remain delocalized [33][34][35][36]. A symmetric situation is observed in the presence of a sufficiently strong random magnetic field coupled to spins: spin excitations are localized whereas charge excitations are extended [37].…”
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“…The universality of this effective classical description may be understood from the central limit theorem: in the regime of incoherent transport, short range interactions lead to an effective random walk with a finite variance of step sizes, leading to a Gaussian distribution at late times. This universality is only broken when quantum coherence is retained, such as in integrable models [9][10][11][12][13] or in the vicinity of a manybody localized phase, where rare region effects give rise to subdiffusive transport [14][15][16][17][18][19][20].…”
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