Chain breaking and Kosterlitz-Thouless scaling at the many-body localization transition in the random field Heisenberg spin chain

Nicolas Laflorencie, Gabriel Lemarié, Nicolas Macé

发表信息：: Phys. Rev. Research 2, 042033(R) (2020)
DOI：: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.042033

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Despite tremendous theoretical efforts to understand subtleties of the many-body localization (MBL) transition, many questions remain open, in particular concerning its critical properties. Here we make the key observation that MBL in one dimension is accompanied by a spin freezing mechanism which causes chain breakings in the thermodynamic limit. Using analytical and numerical approaches, we show that such chain breakings directly probe the typical localization length, and that their scaling properties at the MBL transition agree with the Kosterlitz-Thouless scenario predicted by phenomenological renormalization group approaches.

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