One-particle density matrix occupation spectrum of many-body localized states after a global quench

Lezama, Talia L. M.; Bera, Soumya; Schomerus, Henning; Heidrich-Meisner, Fabian und Bardarson, Jens H. (2017): One-particle density matrix occupation spectrum of many-body localized states after a global quench. In: Physical Review B, Bd. 96, Nr. 6, 60202

Abstract

The emergent integrability of the many-body localized phase is naturally understood in terms of localized quasiparticles. As a result, the occupations of the one-particle density matrix in eigenstates show a Fermi-liquid-like discontinuity. Here, we show that in the steady state reached at long times after a global quench from a perfect density-wave state, this occupation discontinuity is absent, reminiscent of a Fermi liquid at a finite temperature, while the full occupation function remains strongly nonthermal. We discuss how one can understand this as a consequence of the local structure of the density-wave state and the resulting partial occupation of quasiparticles. This partial occupation can be controlled by tuning the initial state and can be described by an effective temperature.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Physik
• Themengebiete: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 530 Physik
• ISSN: 2469-9950
• Sprache: Englisch