Anomalous dynamics in the ergodic side of the Many-Body Localization transition and the glassy phase of Directed Polymers in Random Media

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2003.09629v1
• Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 11:02:06 GMT
• Title: Anomalous dynamics in the ergodic side of the Many-Body Localization transition and the glassy phase of Directed Polymers in Random Media
• Authors: Giulio Biroli and Marco Tarzia
• Abstract summary: We show the existence of a glass transition within the extended regime separating a metallic-like phase at small disorder. We relate the dynamical evolution in the glassy phase to the depinning transition of Directed Polymers. By comparing the quantum dynamics on loop-less Cayley trees and Random Regular Graphs we discuss the effect of loops.
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• Abstract: Using the non-interacting Anderson tight-binding model on the Bethe lattice as a toy model for the many-body quantum dynamics, we propose a novel and transparent theoretical explanation of the anomalously slow dynamics that emerges in the bad metal phase preceding the Many-Body Localization transition. By mapping the time-decorrelation of many-body wave-functions onto Directed Polymers in Random Media, we show the existence of a glass transition within the extended regime separating a metallic-like phase at small disorder, where delocalization occurs on an exponential number of paths, from a bad metal-like phase at intermediate disorder, where resonances are formed on rare, specific, disorder dependent site orbitals on very distant generations. The physical interpretation of subdiffusion and non-exponential relaxation emerging from this picture is complementary to the Griffiths one, although both scenarios rely on the presence of heavy-tailed distribution of the escape times. We relate the dynamical evolution in the glassy phase to the depinning transition of Directed Polymers, which results in macroscopic and abrupt jumps of the preferred delocalizing paths when a parameter like the energy is varied, and produce a singular behavior of the overlap correlation function between eigenstates at different energies. By comparing the quantum dynamics on loop-less Cayley trees and Random Regular Graphs we discuss the effect of loops, showing that in the latter slow dynamics and apparent power-laws extend on a very large time-window but are eventually cut-off on a time-scale that diverges at the MBL transition.

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