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Anomalous Dynamical Scaling of Roughness in Disordered Fermion Models

Kazuya Fujimoto, Ryusuke Hamazaki, Yuki Kawaguchi

Published Jan 20, 2021• 0 citations
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Abstract

Localization is one of the most fundamental interference phenomena caused by randomness, and its universal aspects have been extensively explored from the perspective of one-parameter scaling mainly in equilibrium states. We theoretically study dynamics of fermions on disordered one-dimensional potentials exhibiting localization, and find that surface roughness and entanglement entropy show dynamical one-parameter-scaling in delocalized phases. The scaling of the roughness corresponds to the Family-Vicsek scaling in classical surface growth, and the associated universal scaling exponents depend on the type of disorder. Particularly, we find that partially localized states in the delocalized phase of the random-dimer model lead to anomalous scaling exponents, which are absent in classical systems and clean systems. Furthermore, we show that the surface roughness is approximately proportional to the square root of the von Neumann entanglement entropy, and then demonstrate that even the entanglement entropy obeys the Family-Vicsek-type scaling. This finding suggests that the surface roughness becomes a reliable measure for the entanglement dynamics.

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Fluctuations in the growing surfaces of classical systems can exhibit universal scaling behavior, known as Family-Vicsek (FV) scaling. Although this phenomenon was originally discovered in classical stochastic models, recent theoretical studies have demonstrated the presence of FV scaling in quantum many-body systems as well. Here, we observe the universal FV scaling in a one-dimensional Bose gas in an optical lattice. By monitoring the fluctuations of particle number in half of the system, which corresponds to the surface roughness, we extract all scaling exponents and demonstrate that the entire relaxation-from the growth of quantum fluctuations to their saturation-is captured by a single universal scaling function. Our results demonstrate that universal scaling laws of classical surface growth extend to quantum many-body systems, establishing a unified framework for nonequilibrium universality across classical and quantum systems.