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Beyond many-body localized states in a spin-disordered Hubbard model with pseudo-spin symmetry

arXiv:1803.02838 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.98.115106

Abstract

A prime characterization of many-body localized (MBL) systems is the entanglement of their eigenstates; in contrast to the typical ergodic phase whose eigenstates are volume law, MBL eigenstates obey an area law. In this work, we show that a spin-disordered Hubbard model has both a large number of area-law eigenstates as well as a large number of eigenstates whose entanglement scales logarithmically with system size (log-law). This model, then, is a microscopic Hamiltonian which is neither ergodic nor many-body localized. We establish these results through a combination of analytic arguments based on the eta-pairing operators combined with a numerical analysis of eigenstates. In addition, we describe and simulate a dynamic time evolution approach starting from product states through which one can separately probe the area law and log-law eigenstates in this system.

arXiv comment12 pages, 18 figures

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