Typicality approach to the optical conductivity in thermal and many-body localized phases

Abstract

We study the frequency dependence of the optical conductivity $\text{Re}\sigma (\omega )$ of the Heisenberg spin-$1/2$ chain in the thermal and near the transition to the many-body localized phase induced by the strength of a random $z$-directed magnetic field. Using the method of dynamical quantum typicality, we calculate the real-time dynamics of the spin-current autocorrelation function and obtain the Fourier transform $\text{Re}\sigma (\omega )$ for system sizes much larger than accessible to standard exact-diagonalization approaches. We find that the low-frequency behavior of $\text{Re}\sigma (\omega )$ is well described by $\text{Re}\sigma (\omega )\approx {\sigma }_{\text{dc}}+a|\omega {|}^{\alpha }$, with $\alpha \approx 1$ in a wide range within the thermal phase and close to the transition. We particularly detail the decrease of ${\sigma }_{\text{dc}}$ in the thermal phase as a function of increasing disorder for strong exchange anisotropies. We further find that the temperature dependence of ${\sigma }_{\text{dc}}$ is consistent with the existence of a mobility edge.

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