Delocalization in a partially disordered interacting many-body system
arXiv:2312.05122 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.109.125127
Abstract
We study a partially disordered one-dimensional system with interacting particles. Concretely, we impose a disorder potential to only every other site, followed by a clean site. Our numerical analysis of eigenstate properties is based on the entanglement entropy and density distributions. Most importantly, at large disorder, there exist eigenstates with large entanglement entropies and significant correlations between the clean sites. These states have volume-law scaling, embedded into a sea of area-law states, reminiscent of inverted quantum-scar states. These eigenstate features leave fingerprints in the nonequilibrium dynamics even in the large-disorder regime, with a strong initial-state dependence. We demonstrate that certain types of initial charge-density-wave states decay significantly, while others preserve their initial inhomogeneity, the latter being the typical behavior for many-body localized systems. This initial-condition dependent dynamics may give extra control over the delocalization dynamics at large disorder strength and should be experimentally feasible with ultracold atoms in optical lattices.
14 pages, 16 figures
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