the disorder-interaction problem
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The disorder-interaction problem . Reinhold Egger Institut für Theoretische Physik Universität Düsseldorf S. Chen, A. De Martino, M. Thorwart, R. Graham, A.O. Gogolin. Overview. Introduction: Noninteracting systems Theoretical concepts Wigner-Dyson spectral statistics - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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The disorder-interaction problem
Reinhold EggerInstitut für Theoretische Physik
Universität Düsseldorf S. Chen, A. De Martino, M. Thorwart,
R. Graham, A.O. Gogolin
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Overview Introduction: Noninteracting systems
Theoretical concepts Wigner-Dyson spectral statistics
Correlated disordered systems Bosons in one dimension
Interference in interacting clean 1D Bose gas Disordered strongly interacting Bose gas: Bose-Fermi
mapping to noninteracting fermions (Anderson insulator) Replica Field Theory (sigma models)
Local density of states in disordered multichannel wires
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Disorder in noninteracting systems Quantum coherent systems Some manifestations of phase coherence in
mesoscopic structures: Universal conductance fluctuations (UCF),
absence of self-averaging Weak localization: Enhanced return probability Spectral fluctuations, level statistics
Why can interactions often be neglected?
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Fermi liquid theory In normal metals, interactions lead to formation of
Landau quasiparticles (Fermi liquid) Weakly interacting Fermions, stable at low energies Quasiparticle relaxation rate due to interactions In disordered systems more dangerous:
Standard picture in mesoscopics, usually neglect of interactions protected by Fermi liquid principle
But: Breakdown of Fermi liquid possible New physical effects New methods required
2E2/dE
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Methods for noninteracting systems Semiclassical techniques
Restricted to essentially clean (chaotic) systems Diagrammatic perturbation theory
Breaks down in nonperturbative regime Random matrix theory
Wigner-Dyson ensembles and generalization (d=0) 1D multimode wires: Transfer matrix ensembles (DMPK)
Field theories (nonlinear sigma model) Supersymmetric formulation (Efetov) Replica/Keldysh field theory (Wegner, Finkel‘stein)
Special techniques Berezinskii diagram technique in 1D Fisher RG scheme for disordered spin chains
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Time and energy scales
Ballistic particle motion up to mean free time Diffusion for E > Thouless energy
Ergodic regime Wavefunctions probe the whole system Universal regime, only governed by symmetries
Resolution of single particle levels at lowest energy scales: Quantum regime
Nonperturbative regime not captured by most methods, easy to miss…
t
duDDLtt D /,/ 22
2/ LDEc
/HD ttt dL/1
/Htt
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Energy level repulsion & universality Main interest in mesoscopics: Transport
quantities (conductance, shot noise) Phase coherence also causes characteristic
fluctuations in spectral properties Universal & nonperturbative physics
only controlled by symmetries and number of accessible states
Two-point correlations of DoS fluctuations
HETrE
EERdisqm
)(
12/2/,
22
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Spectral correlations
Diagrammatics: Diffuson (a) and possibly Cooperon (b) show unphysical divergence from zero mode
Exact result (here: broken time-reversal invariance) covers nonperturbative regime, no artificial divergence
Oscillatory Wigner-Dyson correlations
Experimental observation in cold atom systems?
qa
DqiR 22
2
2)(,2 Re21
2
2
2 //sin
R
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Concepts for interacting systems Many of these methods not applicable anymore…
Supersymmetry DMPK approach, Berezinskii method Semiclassics, standard RMT models
… or only perturbative results: Diagrammatic theory Disorder enhanced interaction effects, zero-bias anomalies
(ZBA) Altshuler & Aronov, 1980 Approaches that (can) work:
Luttinger liquid theory (1D), exactly solvable in clean case Interacting nonlinear σ model: Replica/Keldysh field theory 1D dirty bosons with strong interactions: Bose-Fermi
mapping to Anderson localization of free fermions
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Luttinger liquid: 1D gapless systems Abelian Bosonization: Field
Field describes charge or spin density Free Gaussian field theory, interactions are
nonperturbatively included in g and velocity u
Clean case: Exactly solvable Disorder strongly relevant, localization Multichannel generalization possible
22 )()(1
21][ xLL u
udxd
gS
1),( Sx
Luttinger, JMP 1963Haldane, JPC 1981
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Luttinger liquid phenomena
No Landau quasiparticles, but Laughlin-type quasiparticles (solitons of field theory) Anyon statistics, fractional charge Should be easier to probe in cold atom systems
(no leads attached!) Spin-charge separation
Proposals for cold atoms exist Recati et al., PRL 2003
Applies to Bosons and Fermions Interference of interacting 1D Bose atom waves
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Bosons in 1D traps: Interference Mach-Zehnder-type inter-
ferometer for Bose atom wavepackets
Axial trap potential switched off at t=0, nonequilibrium initial state
Expansion, then interference at opposite side
Interference signal Dependence on interactions? Dependence on temperature?
Chen & Egger, PRA 2003
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Theoretical description1D Bose gas on a ring with time-dependent
axial potential V(x,t) Exact Lieb-Liniger solution only without potential Low energy limit & gradient expansion (LDA)
yields generalized Luttinger liquid Quadratic in density & phase fluctuations
around solution of GP equation
txtxtx
txtxtx,,,,,,
0
0
000 , ietx
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Hamiltonian Luttinger type Hamiltonian:
Quadratic Hamiltonian, can be diagonalized for any time-dependent potential
Time-dependent & non-uniform
B
BB
xxx
gTGmgTFg
F
Fmm
dxtH
:,2/0:,
2)(
2)(
020
220
0
2
0
00
0
22
0
02
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Interference signal
Consider
and self-similar limits: Thomas-Fermi (TF) or Tonks-Girardeau (TG)
with known scale function
Interference signal from density matrix
0,0
0,2),(
220
t
txmtxV
x
)(
0),(/, 00 tb
tbxtx
txtxtxxW BB ,,),,( *
1)0(),( btbÖhberg & Santos, PRL 2002
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TF limit: Interference signal
Ring with and atoms Circumference 16R for TF radius R
Na231000kHz50
mstkHzx 16,5.0 mstkHzx 8,1
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Interference in Tonks-Girardeau limit Interactions will decrease
interference signal substantially compared to Thomas Fermi limit
Big interaction effect Explicit confirmation from
a fermionized picture possible Das, Girardeau & Wright, PRL 2002
Chen & Egger, PRA 2003
Rb871000
stHzkHz 1,10,100 0
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Disordered interacting bosons Field theory unstable for bosons So far only mean-field type approximate
results, or numerical simulations Exact statements possible for 1D disordered
bosons with strong repulsion: Bose-Fermi mapping to free disordered fermions Bose glass phase is mapped to Anderson localized
fermionic phaseDe Martino, Thorwart, Egger & Graham, cond-mat/0408xxx
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Bose Hubbard model
Bose Hubbard model in 1D
Tunable on-site disorder laser speckle pattern incommensurate additional lattice microchip-confined systems: Atom-surface
interactions
l
llllll nUnnblhchbbJH 1)(.. 2*1
lkdisdisklhh
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Bose-Fermi Mapping Consider hard-core bosons:
only possible!Jordan-Wigner transformation to free fermions:
Well known in clean case (Tonks-Girardeau), but also works with disorder!
U1,0ln
llj
jjl cccib
*exp
l
lllllF ccblhchccJH *2*1 )(..
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Many-body boson wavefunction N-boson wavefunction is Slater determinant
of free fermion solutions to single-particle energy
)(det!
1sgn,,1 jiji
jiNB l
Nllll
N
j
jiE
1
)(
)(lii
Girardeau, J. Math. Phys. 1960
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Physical observables
All observables expressed by are invariant under Bose-Fermi mapping, e.g. local density of states (LDoS)
Greatly simplified calculation for others, e.g. boson momentum distribution
2B
22,,
,,,,2
NB
ll
lllElN
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Boson momentum distribution Momentum distribution different for boson
and fermion systems Bosonic one:
Jordan-Wigner transformation & Wick´s theorem give for fixed disorder:
´),(1´'
* det2 llllll Gbb
´*
´
´)(1ˆ llll
allip bbeN
pn
1,1´*´
´),(
21
jijlilll
ij ccG
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Results: Rb-87 atoms in harmonic trap
Numerically averaged over 300 disorder realizations, T=0
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Continuum limit (homogeneous case) Low-energy expansion defines bispinor
Free-fermion Hamiltonian
with
hdxH ˆ* )()( xexeac L
xikR
xikl
FF lax
)()()(ˆ * xxxivh xzF
mkvLNk FFF /,/
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Disorder averages
Disorder forward scattering can be eliminated by gauge transformation for incommensurate situation
Backward scattering:
Consider weak disorder: Standard free-fermion Hamiltonian for study
of 1D Anderson localization, many results available (mainly via Berezinskii method)
´2
´)()(2
* xxvxx Fdis
1Fk
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LDoS distribution function Average DoS is simply More interesting: Probability distribution of
LDoS (normalized to average DoS) Closed sample: Regularization necessary,
broadening η of sharp discrete energy levels Inelastic processes, finite sample lifetime
Result: Inverse Gaussian distribution
1Fv
/14
3
24 eW Al´tshuler & Prigodin, Zh.Eksp.Teor.Fis. 1989
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Finite spatial resolution
LDoS can be measured using two-photon Bragg spectroscopy
Finite spatial resolution (laser beam) in the range defines smeared LDoS
Distribution function is then
1Fk
yxdyx
,,~2/
2/
2/~
4
2
44sin~~ t
t
etttdtW
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Implications
Anomalously small probability for small LDoS implies Poisson distribution of energetically close-by bosonic energy levels
No level repulsion as in Wigner-Dyson ensembles!
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Spectral correlations LDoS correlations at different energies and
locations
equals the fermionic correlator consider low energies
Limits: Gorkov, Dorokhov & Prigara, Zh.Eksp.Teor.Fis.1983 Large distances: uncorrelated value R=0 Short distance: R approaches -1/3 Deep dip at intermediate distances
1´,~,~´, xxxxR
1
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Spectral fluctuations
8ln2´ 0 zxxDeep dip for
Then:
1
221,
0
0
xzzxerfxR
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Implications
Energetically close-by states occupy with high probability distant locations but appreciable overlap at short distances
Localized states are centered on many defects, complicated quantum interference phenomenon
No Wigner-Dyson correlations, but Poisson statistics of uncorrelated energy levels
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Other quantities
Mapping allows to extract many other experimentally relevant quantities: Compressibility, and hence sound velocity Density-density correlations, structure factor Time-dependent density profile (expansion)
crossover from short-time diffusion to long-time localization physics
Details and references: De Martino, Thorwart, Egger & Graham, cond-mat/0408xxx
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Replica field theory & Nonlinear σ model:Disordered interacting fermions Disorder average via replicas
Disorder average time-nonlocal four-fermion interactions, prefactor
Atom-atom or electron-electron interactions: Four-fermion interactions, e.g. pseudopotential, strength
nZZ
ZTkFn
n
B
1limln
ln
0
nr ,,1,,
0
1
0U
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Towards the replica field theory Decouple disorder-induced four-fermion interactions
via energy-bilocal field Similar Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation to
decouple interaction-induced four-fermion interactions via field
Integrate out fermions Physics encoded in geometry of these fields,
connection to theory of symmetric spaces Formally exact, includes nonperturbative effects
rQ
,r
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Saddle point structure Full action of replicated theory:
Standard saddle point: vacuum of interacting disordered system („Fermi sea“) Gauge transformation with linear functional K
iKiK eeQ
QiiiG
GTrTrU
QTrQS
p
2
ln21
4,
1
12
0
20
sgn
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Nonlinear sigma model (NLσM) Gradient expansion of logarithm for weak disorder
and low energies gives interacting NLσM Finkel´stein, Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 1983
Fluctuations around standard saddle give:
Diffuson (diffusively screened interaction) Cooperon (weak localization) Interaction corrections: Nonperturbative treatment of the
zero-bias anomaly (ZBA) Caution: Large fluctuations (Q instantons) involving
non-standard saddle points often important (e.g. for Wigner-Dyson spectral statistics)
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Example: ZBA in multiwall nanotubes
Pronounced non-Fermi liquid behaviorBachtold et al., PRL 2001
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Diffusive interacting system: LDoS Local (tunneling) density of states (LDoS)
Microscopic nonperturbative theory: Interacting nonlinear σ model
Nonperturbative result in interactions for LDoS, valid for diffusive multichannel wires
Egger & Gogolin, PRL 2001, Chem. Phys. 2002
0
*/ 0,,Re, xtxdtex FFti
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LDoS of interacting diffusive wire LDoS Debye-Waller factor P(E):
1)(),0(
/expRe)(
0
0
tieIdtTJ
tJiEtdtEP
Tk
TkE
B
B
eeEPdE
/
/
0 11)(
Connection to P(E) theory of Coulomb blockade
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Spectral density: P(E) theory
NLσM calculation gives for interaction
For constant spectral density: Power law
)0( I
2/,1/
/Re)(2
)(
200
*
*2/1
2
2*
*0
uDUDD
DDN
nDiDD
UIn
Field/particle diffusion constants
0U
with
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Two-dimensional limit: Above the (transverse) Thouless energy For , summation can be
converted to integral, yields constant spectral density Power-law ZBA
Tunneling into interacting diffusive 2D system Logarithmic Altshuler-Aronov ZBA is
exponentiated into power-law ZBA At low energies: Pseudogap behavior
DDD
/ln2
1 *
0
2/ LDEE c
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Below the Thouless scale
Apparent power law, like in experiment
Smaller exponent for weaker interactions, only weak dependence on mean free path
1D pseudogap at very low energies
Should also be observable for cold Fermionic atoms! 12/,10 0 uUN
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Conclusions
Concepts for noninteracting and interacting mesoscopic/atomic systems Luttinger liquid theory: Interference of 1D Bose
matter waves Strongly interacting 1D bosons: Mapping to
noninteracting fermions allows to apply solution of 1D Anderson localization
Replica field theory, interacting nonlinear sigma model: TDoS of multichannel wires