Disordered impenetrable two-component fermions in one dimension

We study the one-dimensional Hubbard model for two-component fermions with infinitely strong on-site repulsion (t - 0 model) in the presence of disorder. Our analytical treatment demonstrates that the type of disorder drastically changes the nature of the emerging phases. The case of spin-independent disorder can be treated as a single-particle problem with Anderson localization. On the contrary, recent numerical findings show that spin-dependent disorder, which can be realized as a random magnetic field, leads to the many-body localization-delocalization transition. We find an explicit analytic expression for the matrix elements of the random magnetic field between the eigenstates of the t - 0 model with potential disorder on a finite lattice. Analysis of the matrix elements supports the existence of the many-body localization-delocalization transition in this system and provides an extended physical picture of the random magnetic field.

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We study the one-dimensional Hubbard model for two-component fermions with infinitely strong on-site repulsion in the presence of disorder. The nature of the emerging phases is drastically changed by the type of disorder. Spin-independent disorder can be treated as a single-particle problem with Anderson localization, while spin-dependent disorder leads to a many-body localization-delocalization transition. We find an explicit analytic expression for the matrix elements of the random magnetic field and support the existence of the many-body localization-delocalization transition in this system.