Explicit construction of local conserved operators in disordered many-body systems
arXiv:1608.03296 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.94.144208
Abstract
The presence and character of local integrals of motion -- quasi-local operators that commute with the Hamiltonian -- encode valuable information about the dynamics of a quantum system. In particular, strongly disordered many-body systems can generically avoid thermalisation when there are extensively many such operators. In this work, we explicitly construct local conserved operators in D spin chains by directly minimising their commutator with the Hamiltonian. We demonstrate the existence of an extensively large set of local integrals of motion in the many-body localised phase of the disordered XXZ spin chain. These operators are shown to have exponentially decaying tails, in contrast to the ergodic phase where the decay is (at best) polynomial in the size of the subsystem. We study the algebraic properties of localised operators, and confirm that in the many-body localised phase they are well-described by "dressed" spin operators.
arXiv comment12 pages, 8 figures
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