Anderson localization and momentum-space entanglement

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Contributors

  • Eric C. Andrade - , TUD Dresden University of Technology, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (Author)
  • Mark Steudtner - , TUD Dresden University of Technology (Author)
  • Matthias Vojta - , Chair of Theoretical Solid State Physics (Author)

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

Original languageEnglish
Article numberP07022
JournalJournal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
Volume2014
Issue number7
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jul 2014
Peer-reviewedYes

Keywords

Keywords

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