Complexity Measure Diagnostics of Ergodic to Many-Body Localization Transition

Abstract

We introduce new diagnostics of the transition between the ergodic and many-body localization phases, which are based on complexity measures defined via the probability distribution function of the Lanczos coefficients of the tri-diagonalized Hamiltonian. We use these complexity measures to analyze the power-law random banded matrix model as a function of the correlation strength and show that the moments and the entropy of the distribution diagnose the ergodic to many-body transition, as well as the distinctive feature of the phases concerning the memory of the initial conditions.

7+10 pages, 7+ 17 figures. v2: appendix I added, typos corrected, published version