Signatures of multifractality in a periodically driven interacting Aubry-Andre model

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关键词: NONEQUILIBRIUM DYNAMICS;    ANDERSON LOCALIZATION;    STATISTICAL-MECHANICS;    QUANTUM;    TRANSITION;    SYSTEMS;    THERMALIZATION;    GENERATION;    DIFFUSION;    ABSENCE;   

DOI  :  10.1103/PhysRevB.105.024301

来源: SCIE

【 摘 要 】

We study themany-body localization (MBL) transition of Floquet eigenstates in a driven, interacting fermionic chain with an incommensurate Aubry-Andre potential and a time-periodic hopping amplitude as a function of the drive frequency omega(D) using exact diagonalization (ED). We find that the nature of the Floquet eigenstates change from ergodic to Floquet-MBL with increasing frequency; moreover, for a significant range of intermediate omega(D), the Floquet eigenstates exhibit nontrivial fractal dimensions. We find a possible transition from the ergodic to this multifractal phase followed by a gradual crossover to the MBL phase as the drive frequency is increased. We also study the fermion autocorrelation function, entanglement entropy, normalized participation ratio (NPR), fermion transport, and the inverse participation ratio (IPR) as a function of omega(D). We show that the autocorrelation, fermion transport, and NPR display qualitatively different characteristics (compared to their behavior in the ergodic and MBL regions) for the range of omega(D) which supports multifractal eigenstates. In contrast, the entanglement growth in this frequency range tend to have similar features as in the MBL regime; its rate of growth is controlled by omega(D). Our analysis thus indicates that the multifractal nature of Floquet-MBL eigenstates can be detected by studying autocorrelation function and fermionic transport of these driven chains. We support our numerical results with a semianalytic expression of the Floquet Hamiltonian obtained using Floquet perturbation theory (FPT) and discuss possible experiments which can test our predictions.

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