Universal dynamics of density correlations at the transition to the many-body localized state

Within one-dimensional disordered models of interacting fermions, we perform a numerical study of several dynamical density correlations, which can serve as hallmarks of the transition to the many-body localized state. The results confirm that density-wave correlations exhibit quite an abrupt change with increasing disorder, with a nonvanishing long-time value characteristic for the nonergodic phase. In addition, our results reveal a logarithmic variation of correlations in time in a wide time window, which we can bring in connection with the anomalous behavior of the dynamical conductivity near the transition. Our results support the view that the transition to many-body localization can be characterized by universal dynamical exponents.