Mobility edge and multifractality in a periodically driven Aubry-Andr\'{e} model

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11889v1
• Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 19:00:10 GMT
• Title: Mobility edge and multifractality in a periodically driven Aubry-Andr\'{e} model
• Authors: Madhumita Sarkar, Roopayan Ghosh, Arnab Sen, and K. Sengupta
• Abstract summary: We study the localization-delocalization transition of Floquet eigenstates in a driven fermionic chain with an incommensurate Aubry-Andr'e potential. Our analysis shows the presence of a mobility edge separating single-particle delocalized states from localized and multifractal states in the Floquet spectrum.
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• Abstract: We study the localization-delocalization transition of Floquet eigenstates in a driven fermionic chain with an incommensurate Aubry-Andr\'{e} potential and a hopping amplitude which is varied periodically in time. Our analysis shows the presence of a mobility edge separating single-particle delocalized states from localized and multifractal states in the Floquet spectrum. Such a mobility edge does not have any counterpart in the static Aubry-Andr\'{e} model and exists for a range of drive frequencies near the critical frequency at which the transition occurs. The presence of the mobility edge is shown to leave a distinct imprint on fermion transport in the driven chain; it also influences the Shannon entropy and the survival probability of the fermions at long times. In addition, we find the presence of CAT states in the Floquet spectrum with weights centered around a few nearby sites of the chain. This is shown to be tied to the flattening of Floquet bands over a range of quasienergies. We support our numerical studies with a semi-analytic expression for the Floquet Hamiltonian ($H_F$) computed within a Floquet perturbation theory. The eigenspectra of the perturbative $H_F$ so obtained exhibit qualitatively identical properties to the exact eigenstates of $H_F$ obtained numerically. Our results thus constitute an analytic expression of a $H_F$ whose spectrum supports multifractal and CAT states. We suggest experiments which can test our theory.

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