Two-body mobility edge in the Anderson-Hubbard model in three dimensions: Molecular versus scattering states
arXiv:2004.03506 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.033501
Abstract
Most of our quantitative understanding of disorder-induced metal-insulator transitions comes from numerical studies of simple noninteracting tight-binding models, like the Anderson model in three dimensions. An important outstanding problem is the fate of the Anderson transition in the presence of additional Hubbard interactions of strength between particles. Based on large-scale numerics, we compute the position of the mobility edge for a system of two identical bosons or two fermions with opposite spin components. The resulting phase diagram in the interaction-energy-disorder space possesses a remarkably rich and counterintuitive structure, with multiple metallic and insulating phases. We show that this phenomenon originates from the molecular or scattering-like nature of the pair states available at given energy and disorder strength . The disorder-averaged density of states of the effective model for the pair is also investigated. Finally, we discuss the implications of our results for ongoing research on many-body localization.
14 pages, 10 figures, to be published in Physical Review Research
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