Strongly disordered Anderson insulator chains with generic two-body interaction
arXiv:2306.14613 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.108.064203
Abstract
The random-field spin-1/2 XXZ chains, and the corresponding Anderson insulators of spinless fermions with density-density interaction, have been intensively studied in the context of many-body localization. However, we recently argued [B. Krajewski et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 260601(2022)] that the two-body density-density interaction in these models is not generic since only a small fraction of this interaction represents a true local perturbation to the Anderson insulator. Here we study ergodicity of strongly disordered Anderson insulator chains choosing other forms of the two-body interaction for which the strength of the true perturbation is of the same order of magnitude as the bare two-body interaction. Focusing on the strong interaction regime, numerical results for the level statistics and the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis are consistent with emergence of ergodicity at arbitrary strong disorder.
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