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Area of Science:

  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Statistical Mechanics
  • Quantum Chaos

Background:

  • Many-body localization (MBL) is a phenomenon where quantum systems fail to thermalize.
  • Understanding the MBL transition is crucial for quantum information science and statistical mechanics.
  • Previous models often lack exact solvability or clear universality class identification.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce a simple, exactly solvable strong-randomness renormalization group (RG) model for the one-dimensional MBL transition.
  • To identify the physical MBL transition and its critical properties.
  • To propose a scaling theory for the MBL transition.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a family of RG flows parametrized by asymmetry between thermal and localized phases.
  • Analyzed the MBL transition in the limit of maximal asymmetry.
  • Investigated the nature of thermal inclusions at the critical point.

Main Results:

  • Identified the physical MBL transition as an instability against rare thermal inclusions.
  • Found a critical point characterized by localized states and power-law distributed thermal inclusions.
  • Observed finite typical and logarithmically diverging average sizes of critical inclusions.
  • Proposed a two-parameter scaling theory for the MBL transition.

Conclusions:

  • The MBL transition falls into the Kosterlitz-Thouless universality class.
  • The MBL phase corresponds to a stable line of multifractal fixed points.
  • The model provides a tractable framework for studying MBL transitions.