Two-body metal-insulator transitions in the Anderson-Hubbard model

Abstract

We review our recent results on Anderson localization in systems of two interacting particles coupled by contact interactions. Based on an exact mapping to an effective single-particle problem, we numerically investigate the occurrence of metal-insulator phase transitions for the pair in two- (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) disordered lattices. In two dimensions, we find that interactions cause an exponential enhancement of the pair localization length with respect to its single-particle counterpart, but do not induce a delocalization transition. In particular we show that previous claims of 2D interaction-induced Anderson transitions are the results of strong finite-size effects. In three dimensions we find that the pair undergoes a metal-insulator transition belonging to the same (orthogonal) universality class of the noninteracting model. We then explore the phase diagram in the space of energy E, disorder W and interaction strength U, which reveals a rich and counterintuitive structure, endowed with multiple metallic and insulating phases. We point out that this phenomenon originates from the molecular and scattering-like nature of the pair states available at given energy and disorder strength.

arXiv commentReview talk at Moscow CSP 2020, 7 pages, 3 figures, conference proceedings to appear in Journal of Physics: Conference Series

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