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One-dimensional quasi-periodic systems with power-law hopping, $1/r^a$, differ from both the standard Aubry-Azbel-Harper (AAH) model and from power-law systems with uncorrelated disorder. Whereas in the AAH model all single-particle states undergo a transition from ergodic to localized at a critical quasi-disorder strength, short-range power-law hops with $a>1$ can result in mobility edges. Interestingly, there is no localization for long-range hops with $aleq 1$, in contrast to the case of uncorrelated disorder. Systems with long-range hops are rather characterized by ergodic-to-multifractal edges and a phase transition from ergodic to multifractal (extended but non ergodic) states. We show that both mobility and ergodic-to-multifractal edges may be clearly revealed in experiments on expansion dynamics.
The transport of excitations between pinned particles in many physical systems may be mapped to single-particle models with power-law hopping, $1/r^a$. For randomly spaced particles, these models present an effective peculiar disorder that leads to surprising localization properties. We show that in one-dimensional systems almost all eigenstates (except for a few states close to the ground state) are power-law localized for any value of $a>0$. Moreover, we show that our model is an example of a new universality class of models with power-law hopping, characterized by a duality between systems with long-range hops ($a<1$) and short-range hops ($a>1$) in which the wave function amplitude falls off algebraically with the same power $gamma$ from the localization center.
We show that in the regime when strong disorder is more relevant than field quantization the superfluid--to--Bose-glass criticality of one-dimensional bosons is preceded by the prolonged logarithmically slow classical-field renormalization flow of the superfluid stiffness at mesoscopic scales. With the system compressibility remaining constant, the quantum nature of the system manifests itself only in the renormalization of dilute weak links. On the insulating side, the flow ultimately reaches a value of the Luttinger parameter at which the instanton--anti-instanton pairs start to proliferate, in accordance with the universal quantum scenario. This happens first at astronomic system sizes because of the suppressed instanton fugacity. We illustrate our result by first-principles simulations.
Non-interacting spinless electrons in one-dimensional quasicrystals, described by the Aubry-Andr{e}-Harper (AAH) Hamiltonian with nearest neighbour hopping, undergoes metal to insulator transition (MIT) at a critical strength of the quasi-periodic potential. This transition is related to the self-duality of the AAH Hamiltonian. Interestingly, at the critical point, which is also known as the self-dual point, all the single particle wave functions are multifractal or non-ergodic in nature, while they are ergodic and delocalized (localized) below (above) the critical point. In this work, we have studied the one dimensional quasi-periodic AAH Hamiltonian in the presence of spin-orbit (SO) coupling of Rashba type, which introduces an additional spin conserving complex hopping and a spin-flip hopping. We have found that, although the self-dual nature of AAH Hamiltonian remains unaltered, the self-dual point gets affected significantly. Moreover, the effect of the complex and spin-flip hoppings are identical in nature. We have extended the idea of Kohns localization tensor calculations for quasi-particles and detected the critical point very accurately. These calculations are followed by detailed multifractal analysis along with the computation of inverse participation ratio and von Neumann entropy, which clearly demonstrate that the quasi-particle eigenstates are indeed multifractal and non-ergodic at the critical point. Finally, we mapped out the phase diagram in the parameter space of quasi-periodic potential and SO coupling strength.
We study a non-Hermitian AA model with the long-range hopping, $1/r^a$, and different choices of the quasi-periodic parameters $beta$ to be the member of the metallic mean family. We find that when the power-law exponent is in the $a<1$ regime, the system displays a delocalized-to-multifractal (DM) edge in its eigenstate spectrum. For the $a>1$ case, it exists a delocalized-to-localized (DL) edge, also called the mobility edge. While a striking feature of the Hermitian AA model with the long-range hopping is that the fraction of delocalized states can be obtained from a general sequence manifesting a mathematical feature of the metallic mean family, we find that the DM or DL edge for the non-Hermitian cases is independent of the mathematical feature of the metallic mean family. To understand this difference, we consider a specific case of the non-Hermitian long-range AA model with $a=2$, for which we can apply the Sarnak method to analytically derive its localization transition points and the exact expression of the DL edge. Our analytical result clearly demonstrates that the mobility edge is independent of the quasi-periodic parameter $beta$, which confirms our numerical result. Finally, an optical setup is proposed to realize the non-Hermitian long-range AA model.
We numerically study spin transport and nonequilibrium spin-density profiles in a clean one-dimensional spin-chain with long-range interactions, decaying as a power-law,$r^{-alpha}$ with distance. We find two distinct regimes of transport: for $alpha<1/2$, spin excitations relax instantaneously in the thermodynamic limit, and for $alpha>1/2$, spin transport combines both diffusive and superdiffusive features. We show that while for $alpha>3/2$ the spin diffusion coefficient is finite, transport in the system is never strictly diffusive, contrary to corresponding classical systems.