Quantum breakdown model: From many-body localization to chaos with scars

被引:9
作者
Lian, Biao [1 ]
机构
[1] Princeton Univ, Dept Phys, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
STATISTICAL-MECHANICS; INSULATOR; DYNAMICS;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevB.107.115171
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
We propose a quantum model of fermions simulating the electrical breakdown process of dielectrics. The model consists of M sites with N fermion modes per site and has a conserved charge Q. It has an on-site chemical potential mu with disorder W and an interaction of strength J restricting each fermion to excite two more fermions when moving forward by one site. We show that the N = 3 model with disorder W = 0 shows a Hilbert space fragmentation and is exactly solvable except for very few Krylov subspaces. The analytical solution shows that the N = 3 model exhibits many-body localization (MBL) as M oo, which is stable against W > 0 as our exact diagonalization (ED) shows. At N > 3, our ED suggests an MBL to quantum chaos crossover at small W as M/N decreases across 1, and persistent MBL at large W. At W = 0, an exactly solvable many-body scar flat band exists in many charge Q sectors, which has a nonzero measure in the thermodynamic limit. We further calculate the time evolution of a fermion added to the particle vacuum, which shows a breakdown (dielectric) phase when mu/J < 1/2 (mu/J > 1/2) if W << J, and no breakdown if W >> J.
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