Level statistics of the disordered Haldane-Shastry model with $1/r^α$ interaction

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Main Authors: Ganapathy, Vengatesan, Patil, Pranay, Balram, Ajit C.
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author Ganapathy, Vengatesan
Patil, Pranay
Balram, Ajit C.
author_facet Ganapathy, Vengatesan
Patil, Pranay
Balram, Ajit C.
contents Understanding how the interaction range and various types of disorder affect the level statistics of many-body quantum systems and lead to the emergence of many-body localization (MBL) is a challenging open frontier. We study the level statistics of a variant of the spin-$1/2$ Haldane-Shastry model with $1/r^α$ interactions, where $α{\geq}0$ parametrizes the range of the interactions, in the presence of position disorder and/or random magnetic fields. We find that neither position disorder nor random magnetic fields alone yields pristine Poisson statistics in this long-range interacting system; however, Poisson statistics emerge in their combined presence, suggesting the emergence of MBL when both types of disorder coexist. Interestingly, once random magnetic fields break the $SU(2)$ symmetry, the strength of the position disorder, $δ$, appears to play an important role, as evidenced by an approximate scaling collapse of the disorder-averaged gap ratios that is parametrized in terms of a single parameter, $αδ$.
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spellingShingle Level statistics of the disordered Haldane-Shastry model with $1/r^α$ interaction
Ganapathy, Vengatesan
Patil, Pranay
Balram, Ajit C.
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Statistical Mechanics
Quantum Physics
Understanding how the interaction range and various types of disorder affect the level statistics of many-body quantum systems and lead to the emergence of many-body localization (MBL) is a challenging open frontier. We study the level statistics of a variant of the spin-$1/2$ Haldane-Shastry model with $1/r^α$ interactions, where $α{\geq}0$ parametrizes the range of the interactions, in the presence of position disorder and/or random magnetic fields. We find that neither position disorder nor random magnetic fields alone yields pristine Poisson statistics in this long-range interacting system; however, Poisson statistics emerge in their combined presence, suggesting the emergence of MBL when both types of disorder coexist. Interestingly, once random magnetic fields break the $SU(2)$ symmetry, the strength of the position disorder, $δ$, appears to play an important role, as evidenced by an approximate scaling collapse of the disorder-averaged gap ratios that is parametrized in terms of a single parameter, $αδ$.
title Level statistics of the disordered Haldane-Shastry model with $1/r^α$ interaction
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
Statistical Mechanics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.14695