Many-Body Localization of Symmetry Protected Topological States
arXiv:1505.05147
Abstract
We address the following question: Which kinds of symmetry protected topological (SPT) Hamiltonians can be many-body localized? That is, which Hamiltonians with an SPT ground state have finite energy density excited states which are all localized by disorder? Based on the observation that a finite energy density state, if localized, can be viewed as the ground state of a local Hamiltonian, we propose a simple (though possibly incomplete) rule for many-body localization of SPT Hamiltonians: If the ground state and top state (highest energy state) belong to the same SPT phase, then it is possible to localize all the finite energy density states; If the ground and top state belong to different SPT phases, then most likely there are some finite energy density states which can not be fully localized. We will give concrete examples of both scenarios. In some of these examples, we argue that interaction can actually "assist" localization of finite energy density states, which is counter-intuitive to what is usually expected.
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