Anderson localization and momentum-space entanglement

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Beitragende

  • Eric C. Andrade - , Technische Universität Dresden, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (Autor:in)
  • Mark Steudtner - , Technische Universität Dresden (Autor:in)
  • Matthias Vojta - , Professur für Theoretische Festkörperphysik (Autor:in)

Abstract

We consider Anderson localization and the associated metal-insulator transition for non-interacting fermions in D = 1, 2 space dimensions in the presence of spatially correlated on-site random potentials. To assess the nature of the wave function, we follow a recent proposal to study momentumspace entanglement. For a D = 1 model with long-range disorder correlations, both the entanglement spectrum and the entanglement entropy allow us to clearly distinguish between extended and localized states based upon a single realization of disorder. However, for other models, including the D = 2 case with long-range correlated disorder, we find that the method is not similarly successful. We analyze the reasons for its failure, concluding that the much desired generalization to higher dimensions may be problematic.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
AufsatznummerP07022
Fachzeitschrift Journal of statistical mechanics: theory and experiment
Jahrgang2014
Ausgabenummer7
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 1 Juli 2014
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Schlagworte

Schlagwörter

  • disordered systems (theory), entanglement in extended quantumsystems (theory)

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