Many-Body Localization from Dynamical Gauge Fields
arXiv:2003.12675 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.102.104302
Abstract
A recent experiment [Nature Physics 10, 1 (2019)] has realized a dynamical gauge system with gauge symmetry in a double-well potential. In this work we propose a method to generalize this model from a single double well to a one-dimensional chain. We show that although there is no disordered potential in the original model, the phenomenon of many-body localization can occur. The key ingredient is that different symmetry sectors with different local gauge charges play the role of different disorder configurations, which becomes clear after exactly mapping our model to a transverse Ising model in a random longitudinal field. We show that both the ergodic regime and the many-body localized regime exist in this model from four different metrics, which include level statistics, volume law versus area law of entanglement entropy of eigenstates, quench dynamics of entanglement entropy and physical observables.
arXiv comment7 pages, 6 figures
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