Abstract

Coupling a one-dimensional quasiperiodic interacting system to a Markovian bath, we study the avalanche instability of the many-body localized phase numerically, finding that many-body localization (MBL) is more stable in pseudorandom quasiperiodic systems than the corresponding randomly disordered systems for a disorder strength W > 8, potentially up to arbitrarily large system sizes. We support our conclusion by additionally developing real-space RG arguments, and we provide a detailed comparison between quasiperiodic and random MBL from the avalanche instability perspective, concluding that the two belong to different universality classes.

Publication Details
Publication Type
Journal Article
Year of Publication
2023
Volume
107
Issue
1
ISSN Number
2469-9950, 2469-9969
DOI
10.1103/physrevb.107.014203
Journal
Physical Review B
Contributors
Date Published
01/2023