Extreme statistics as a probe of the superfluid to Bose-glass Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09029v1
• Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:00:02 GMT
• Title: Extreme statistics as a probe of the superfluid to Bose-glass Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition
• Authors: Jeanne Colbois, Natalia Chepiga, Shaffique Adam, Gabriel Lemarié, Nicolas Laflorencie,
• Abstract summary: We study the disorder-induced Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) quantum phase transition from superfluid to Bose glass.<n>Based on high-precision density matrix renormalization group simulations, we numerically show that extreme local densities accurately capture the BKT transition.<n>We also discuss the SF-BG transition in the weak disorder regime, where finite-size effects pose greater challenges.
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• Abstract: Recent studies of delocalization-localization transitions in disordered quantum chains have highlighted the role of rare, chain-breaking events that favor localization, in particular for high-energy eigenstates related to many-body localization. In this context, we revisit the random-field XXZ spin-1/2 chain at zero temperature with ferromagnetic interactions, equivalent to interacting fermions or hard-core bosons in a random potential with attractive interactions. We argue that localization in this model can be characterized by chain-breaking events, which are probed by the extreme values of simple local observables, such as the on-site density or the local magnetization, that are readily accessible in both experiments and numerical simulations. Adopting a bosonic language, we study the disorder-induced Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) quantum phase transition from superfluid (SF) to Bose glass (BG), and focus on the strong disorder regime where localization is driven by weak links. Based on high-precision density matrix renormalization group simulations, we numerically show that extreme local densities accurately capture the BKT transition, even for relatively short chains ranging from a few dozen to a hundred sites. We also discuss the SF-BG transition in the weak disorder regime, where finite-size effects pose greater challenges. Overall, our work seeks to establish a solid foundation for using extreme statistics of local observables, such as density, to probe delocalization-localization transitions in disordered quantum chains, both in the ground state and at high energy.

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