Non-thermalized Dynamics of Flat-Band Many-Body Localization

Abstract

We find that a flat-band fermion system with interactions and without disorders exhibits non-thermalized ergodicity-breaking dynamics, an analog of many-body localization (MBL). In the previous works, we observed flat-band many-body localization (FMBL) in the Creutz ladder model. The origin of FMBL is a compact localized state governed by local integrals of motion (LIOMs), which are to be obtained explicitly. In this work, we clarify the dynamical aspects of FMBL. We first study dynamics of two-particles, and find that the states are not substantially modified by weak interactions, but the periodic time evolution of entanglement entropy emerges as a result of a specific mechanism inherent in the system. On the other hand, as the strength of the interactions is increased, the modification of the states takes place with inducing instability of the LIOMs. Furthermore, many-body dynamics of the system at finite fillings is numerically investigated by time-evolving block decimation (TEBD) method. For a suitable choice of the filling, non-thermal and low entangled dynamics appears. This behavior is a typical example of the disorder-free FMBL.

6+2 pages, 4+3 figures, revised version, accepted as Letter in Phys. Rev. B

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