Signatures of many-body localization of quasiparticles in a flat band superconductor

Koushik Swaminathan; Poula Tadros; Sebastiano Peotta

doi:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.043215

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Signatures of many-body localization of quasiparticles in a flat band superconductor

Koushik Swaminathan, Poula Tadros, Sebastiano Peotta

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.043215 · Physical Review Research

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Abstract

We construct a class of exact eigenstates of the Hamiltonian obtained by projecting the Hubbard interaction term onto the flat band subspace of a generic lattice model. These exact eigenstates are many-body states in which an arbitrary number of localized fermionic particles coexist with a sea of mobile Cooper pairs with zero momentum. By considering the dice lattice as an example, we provide evidence that these exact eigenstates are, in fact, a manifestation of local integrals of motions of the projected Hamiltonian. In particular, the spin and particle densities retain memory of the initial state for a very long time if localized unpaired particles are present at the beginning of the time evolution. This shows that many-body localization of quasiparticles and superfluidity can coexist even in generic two-dimensional lattice models with flat bands, for which it is not known how to construct local conserved quantities. Our results open interesting perspectives on the old condensed-matter problem of the interplay between superconductivity and localization.