Localisation transition in the driven Aubry-Andre model
Year: 2018
Authors: Romito D., Lobo C., Recati A.
Autors Affiliation: Univ Southampton, Southampton, Hants, England; Univ Trento, Trento, Italy.
Abstract: A recent experiment by Bordia et al. [P. Bordia et al., Nat. Phys. 13, 5 (2017)] has demonstrated that periodically modulating the potential of a localised many-body quantum system described by the Aubry-Andre Hamiltonian with on-site interactions can lead to a many-body localisation-delocalisation transition, provided the modulation amplitude is big enough. Here, we consider the noninteracting counterpart of that model in order to explore its phase diagram as a function of the strength of the disordered potential, the driving frequency and its amplitude. We will first of all mimic the experimental procedure of Bordia et al. and use the even-odd sites imbalance as a parameter in order to discern between different phases. Then we compute the Floquet eigenstates and relate the localisation-delocalisation transition to their IPR. Both these approaches show that the delocalisation transition occurs for frequencies that are low compared to the bandwidth of the time independent model. Moreover, in agreement with [P. Bordia et al., Nat. Phys. 13, 5 (2017)] there is an amplitude threshold below which no delocalisation transition occurs. We estimate both the critical values for the frequency and the amplitude.
Journal/Review: EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL D
Volume: 72 (8) Pages from: 135-1 to: 135-8
More Information: This project was supported by the University of Southampton as host of the Vice-Chancellor Fellowship scheme. D.R. would like to thank the Ludwig Maximilian University (Munich) for the hospitality during the writing of the thesis that lead to this work.KeyWords: Metal-insulator-transition; ParticleDOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2018-90081-3Citations: 4data from “WEB OF SCIENCE” (of Thomson Reuters) are update at: 2024-10-20References taken from IsiWeb of Knowledge: (subscribers only)