Localization renormalization and quantum Hall systems
arXiv:2310.14074 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.109.125132
Abstract
The obstruction to constructing localized degrees of freedom is a signature of several interesting condensed matter phases. We introduce a localization renormalization procedure that harnesses this property, and apply our method to distinguish between topological and trivial phases in quantum Hall and Chern insulators. By iteratively removing a fraction of maximally-localized orthogonal basis states, we find that the localization length in the residual Hilbert space exhibits a power-law divergence as the fraction of remaining states approaches zero, with an exponent of . In sharp contrast, the localization length converges to a system-size-independent constant in the trivial phase. We verify this scaling using a variety of algorithms to truncate the Hilbert space, and show that it corresponds to a statistically self-similar expansion of the real-space projector. This result accords with a renormalization group picture and motivates the use of localization renormalization as a versatile numerical diagnostic for quantum Hall systems.
arXiv comment10+11 pages, 7+5 figures
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