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arXiv:2207.04370

Quantum phase transition from a paramagnetic Anderson insulating state to a ferromagnetic many-body localized state via an intermediate ferromagnetic metallic phase

Kyung-Yong Park, Iksu Jang, Ki‐Seok Kim

Published Jul 10, 2022• 0 citations
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Abstract

Effects of electron correlations on Anderson insulators have been one of the central themes for recent two decades, suggesting that the Anderson insulating phase turns into a novel insulating state referred to as many body localization (MBL). However, the role of spin degrees of freedom in this dynamical phase transition still remains unclarified as a function of the interaction strength. In this study, we perform real-space spin-resolved Hartree-Fock-Anderson simulations to investigate metal-insulator transitions above a critical disorder strength in three spatial dimensions, where all single-particle states are Anderson-localized without interactions. Here, relatively weak correlations below the Mott regime are taken into account in the mean-field fashion but disorder effects are introduced essentially exactly. We find two types of single-particle mobility edges, where the multifractal spectrum of the interaction-driven low-energy mobility edge deviates from that of the high-energy one smoothly connected with the multifractal spectrum of the metal-insulator transition without interactions. We show that the weakly interacting insulating phase remains to be a paramagnetic Anderson insulating state up to the temperature of the order of the band width. On the other hand, we uncover that the relatively strongly interacting insulating phase still below the Mott regime is ferromagnetic, which turns into a ferromagnetic metallic state at a critical temperature much lower than the order of the bandwidth. Based on all these results, we propose a quantum phase transition from a paramagnetic Anderson insulating state to a ferromagnetic MBL insulating phase via an intermediate ferromagnetic metallic state, which intervenes between these two insulators at the Fermi energy.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.2207.04370

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A metal can be driven to an insulating phase through distinct mechanisms. A possible way is via the Coulomb interaction, which then defines the Mott metal-insulator transition (MIT). Another possibility is the MIT driven by disorder, the so-called Anderson MIT. Here we analyze interacting particles in disordered Hubbard chains---thus comprising the Mott-Anderson physics---by investigating the ground-state entanglement with density functional theory. The localization signature on entanglement is found to be a decreasing on the entanglement degree in comparison to the clean (without interaction and disorder) case, with local minima at certain critical densities. Individually, the Mott (Anderson) MIT has a single critical density whose minimum entanglement decreases as the interaction (disorder) enhances. While in the Mott MIT entanglement saturates at finite values, characterizing partial localization, in the Anderson MIT the system reaches full localization, with zero entanglement, for sufficiently strong disorder. In the combined Mott-Anderson MIT, we find three critical densities referring to local minima on entanglement. One of them is the same as for the Anderson MIT, but now the presence of interaction requires a stronger disorder potential to induce full localization. A second critical density is related to the Mott MIT, but due to disorder it is displaced by a factor proportional to the concentration of impurities. The third local minimum on entanglement is unique to the concomitant presence of disorder and interaction, found to be related to an effective density phenomenon, thus referred to as a Mott-like MIT. Since entanglement has been intrinsically connected to the magnetic susceptibility---a quantity promptly available in cold-atom experiments---our detailed numerical description might be useful for the experimental investigation of the Mott-Anderson MIT.