Localization of Interacting Fermions in the Aubry-André Model

We consider interacting electrons in a one-dimensional lattice with an incommensurate Aubry-André potential in the regime when the single-particle eigenstates are localized. We rigorously establish the persistence of ground state localization in the presence of weak many-body interaction, for almost...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review letters 2015-10, Vol.115 (18), p.180401-180401, Article 180401
1. Verfasser: Mastropietro, Vieri
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Zusammenfassung:We consider interacting electrons in a one-dimensional lattice with an incommensurate Aubry-André potential in the regime when the single-particle eigenstates are localized. We rigorously establish the persistence of ground state localization in the presence of weak many-body interaction, for almost all the chemical potentials. The proof uses a quantum many-body extension of methods adopted for the stability of tori of nearly integrable Hamiltonian systems and relies on number-theoretic properties of the potential incommensurate frequency.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.180401